Why patients use alternative medicine: Results of a national study

Journal of the American Medical Association

Volumn 279, Issue 19, 1998, Pages 1548-1553

  Astin, John A ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE; ARTICLE; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH STATUS; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PATIENT RIGHT; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIOECONOMICS;

ALTERNATIVE THERAPIES; AUTONOMY; CLINICAL APPROACH/SOURCE; EMPIRICAL APPROACH; HEALTH CARE; PROFESSIONAL PATIENT RELATIONSHIP; SURVEY; UNITED STATES; VALUES;

ADULT; AGED; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; COMPLEMENTARY THERAPIES; DATA COLLECTION; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HOLISTIC HEALTH; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PERSONAL AUTONOMY; PHILOSOPHY, MEDICAL; SOCIAL VALUES; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0032550626     PISSN: 00987484     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jama.279.19.1548     Document Type: Article

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