Complementary Medicine: What Physicians Think of It: A Meta-analysis

Archives of Internal Medicine

Volumn 155, Issue 22, 1995, Pages 2405-2408

  Ernst, Edzard ^a   Resch, Karl Ludwig ^a   White, Adrian R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE; ARTICLE; MEDICAL PRACTICE; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RATING SCALE;

ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; COMPLEMENTARY THERAPIES; DATA COLLECTION; HUMAN; PHYSICIANS; PLACEBO EFFECT; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0028800405     PISSN: 00039926     EISSN: 15383679     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archinte.1995.00430220059006     Document Type: Article

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