Sentence examples for each study will be from inspiring English sources

Each study will be comprehensively assessed for bias.

Last patient, last visit for each study will be December 2013 and March 2014 respectively.

The corresponding author for each study will be contacted in the first instance.

Key findings from each study will be summarised and presented in summary tables.

Then, each study will be independently abstracted by teams of two reviewers among the team researchers.

Information on quality for each study will be accompanied by a description of the assessment and decision-making process.

Second, the effect size of acupuncture in each original study will be combined in the meta-analysis.

Each primary study will be "inspected for evidence, according to how it supports, weakens, modifies, supplements, reinterprets or refocuses the preliminary theory".

The level of intervention examined in each included study will be agreed by the co-ordinating centre and the relevant trialists prior to conducting the analysis.

Each primary study will be examined for evidence based on how it supports, refutes, reinterprets or refocuses the novice theories developed in the first step, looking at how each study contributes to refining the initial theory.

Second, following the statement of the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) published in 2004, which requires that all clinical trials be registered in order to improve the transparency and credibility of clinical evidence, 30 the authenticity of each included study will be checked by searching relevant published protocols and contacting the first or corresponding author.