Rapid Assessment of Alternative Medicine through a Comparison of the Expected and Observed Progress of Patients: A Feasibility Study of the Prognosis/Follow-Up Method

Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 755-761

  Graz, Bertrand ^a,c   Falquet, Jacques ^a   Morency, Patrick ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^b Direction of Public Health Services   (Canada)

^c Le Château Galland   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICA; ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; COMPETENCE; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GENERAL PRACTICE; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HISTORY OF MEDICINE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MAURITANIA; PATIENT CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PUBLIC RELATIONS; STANDARD; TIME; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT PLANNING; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

EID: 0242664856     PISSN: 10755535     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/107555303322524607     Document Type: Article

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