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Defining the landscape of patient harm after osteopathic manipulative treatment: synthesis of an adverse event model.
December 13, 2023
Unger MD, Barr JN, Brower JA, et al. BMC Complementary Medicine and Therapies. 2023;23(1):407.
Complementary and alternative medicine present unique patient safety challenges. In this analysis of 23 studies evaluating osteopathic manipulative treatment (OMT), researchers estimate the incidence of adverse events at 1.0 per 100 post-OMT interval-days, with the majority being mild in terms of severity.
