Analysis of the Registration Information on Interventions of Acupuncture and Moxibustion Trials in the International Clinical Trials Registry Platform

Table 5

The number of clinical trials of acupuncture-moxibustion in 16 countries in WHO ICTRP.

	Countries/district	Internet site	The number of clinical trials in acupuncture	The number of clinical trials In moxibustion	The others	Total number
Platform
Clinical Trials.gov	United States	http://www.clinicaltrials.gov/	178 ()	3 ()	22	201
ChiCTR	China	http://www.chictr.org.cn/	99	3	4	106
CRIS	Kore	http://cris.nih.go.kr/	28 ()	2 ()	1	30
IRCT	Iran	http://www.irct.ir/	13	0	8	21
ANZCTR	Australia/New Zealand	http://www.anzctr.org.au/	8	0	4	12
ISRCTN.org	United Kingdom	http://www.isrctn.org/	16	0	1	17
JPRN	Japan	http://rctportal.niph.go.jp/	16 ()	4 ()	0	18
DRKS	Germany	http://www.germanctr.de/	4	0	1	5
ReBec	Brazil	http://www.ensaiosclinicos.gov.br/	5	0	1	6
TCTR	Thailand	http://www.clinicaltrials.in.th/	6	0	0	6
NTR	Netherlands	http://www.trialregister.nl/	1	0	0	1
PAC-TR	Africa	http://www.pactr.org/	1	0	0	1
CTRI	India	http://www.ctri.nic.in/	1	0	0	1
Total						425

both acupuncture and moxibustion in titles.