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The effectiveness of moxibustion for the treatment of functional constipation: a randomized, sham-controlled, patient blinded, pilot clinical trial

Ji‐Eun Park, Jae-Uk Sul, Kyung‐Won Kang, Byung‐Cheul Shin, Kwon-Eui Hong, Sun‐Mi Choi

BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine · 2011 · 39 citations · 13 references

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Stool Form Scale as a Useful Guide to Intestinal Transit Time

Stephen J. Lewis, K W Heaton · Scandinavian Journal of Gastroenterology · 1997 · 3.1K citations

Sample size of 12 per group rule of thumb for a pilot study

Steven A. Julious · Pharmaceutical Statistics · 2005 · 2.9K citations

Group Rule, Generalizability Theory, Sampling Technique +16

An epidemiological survey of constipation in Canada: definitions, rates, demographics, and predictors of health care seeking

Pierre Paré, Simon Ferrazzi, Wade Thompson et al. · The American Journal of Gastroenterology · 2001 · 436 citations

Functional Gastrointestinal Disorder, Health Outcome, Social Health +11

Validity and reliability of the Constipation Assessment Scale

Susan C. McMillan, Faye A. Williams · Cancer Nursing · 1989 · 245 citations

Pain Therapy, Pain Medicine, Gastroenterology +17

Costs of health care for irritable bowel syndrome, chronic constipation, functional diarrhoea and functional abdominal pain

K. A. NYROP, Olafur S. Palsson, Rona L. Levy et al. · Alimentary Pharmacology & Therapeutics · 2007 · 209 citations