ACURATE: A guide for reporting sham controls in trials using acupuncture.

"Conflict of interest This article is a secondary publication of a study first reported in Journal of Evidence-Based Medicine: Lee Y-S, Kim S-Y, Lee H, Chae Y, Lee M. ACURATE: A guide for reporting sham controls in trials using acupuncture. J Evid Based Med. 2023; 16: 82– 90. The reviewers’ comments on the primary publication were provided to the editors and reviewers of this journal."

"Funding This research was supported by the Korea Institute of Oriental Medicine (KIOM, Grant No. KSN2013210 and No. KSN2021210) and by the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) Grant funded by the Korea government (MSIT) (No. 2019R1G1A1100815). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript."