REporting Guidelines for aCupuncture‐Related AdverSe Event Case Reports (RECASE): Elaboration and Explanation
Case reports represent the earliest form of scientific literature to identify and describe adverse events (AEs) associated with medical interventions, and they still represent important educational resources for ensuring the safe practice of such interventions. Although case reports on AEs related to acupuncture continue to be published, detailed information about the acupuncture procedure is often insufficiently reported in these studies, which may introduce an overstatement or exaggeration of the harm of acupuncture. Consequently, these reports fall short of evaluating causality and achieving the educational purpose of preventing future AEs. To help address these limitations, we developed the "REporting guidelines for aCupuncture-related AdverSe Event case reports" (RECASE) based on the CARE (CAse REports) reporting guidelines for case reports using the expert Delphi methodology. This guideline contains essential items for case reports on acupuncture-related AEs. We anticipate that this reporting guideline will encourage greater transparency, fairness, and comprehensiveness in future case reports on acupuncture-related AEs.
Authors
- Zhirui Xu (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2254-4338)
- Jeremy Y. Ng (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0031-5873)
- Lin Yu (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0038-9266)
- Myeong Soo LEE
- Terje Alræk
- Tae Hun Kim (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6292-9956)
- Yeseul Lee
- Jung Won Kang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0005-5914-3588)
- Lin Ang
- Stephen Birch
- Yuting Duan
Institutions
- University of Technology Sydney (AU)
- Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine (CN)
- Høyskolen Kristiania (NO)
- Robert Bosch Hospital (DE)
- Kyung Hee University (KR)
- Guangzhou University (CN)
- Dunsan Korean Medicine Hospital (KR)
- National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (US)
- Korea Institute of Oriental Medicine (KR)
- Jaseng Medical Foundation (KR)
- Guangdong Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine (CN)
- University Children's Hospital Tübingen (DE)
- The Third Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou University of Traditional Chinese Medicine (CN)
- Hamilton Health Sciences (CA)
- UiT The Arctic University of Norway (NO)
- University of Tübingen (DE)
- Robert Bosch (Germany) (DE)
- Guangzhou Medical University (CN)
- McMaster University (CA)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Journal of Evidence-Based Medicine
- Published
- 2025-12-01
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1111/jebm.70099
- Primary Topic
- Acupuncture Treatment Research Studies
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00
Funders
- Korea Health Industry Development Institute
- Korea Institute of Oriental Medicine