Exploring General Practitioners' attitudes to homeopathy in Dumfries and Galloway

Homeopathy

Volumn 92, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 190-194

  Hamilton, E ^a  

^a Glasgow Homoeopathic Hospital   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Attitudes; CAM; Evidence based medicine; General Practitioners; Homeopathy; Integration; Quantitative; Scotland

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTICE; HOMEOPATHY; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICAL SOCIETY; PATIENT SATISFACTION; QUESTIONNAIRE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RURAL AREA; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 0142089765     PISSN: 14754916     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.homp.2003.06.001     Document Type: Article

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