Experience and attitudes towards CAM - A survey of internal and psychosomatic patients in a German University Hospital

Alternative Therapies in Health and Medicine

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 32-36

  Huber, Roman ^a   Koch, Dietmar ^a   Beisner, Ines ^a   Zschocke, Ina ^a   Ludtke, Rainer ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b Karl und Veronica Carstens Stiftung   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; DIET; EXERCISE; EXPERIENCE; FEMALE; GERMANY; HEALTH SURVEY; HERBAL MEDICINE; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; LIFESTYLE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MASSAGE; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PROGNOSIS; PSYCHOSOMATIC DISORDER; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

ADULT; AGED; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; COMPLEMENTARY THERAPIES; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASES; GERMANY; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMANS; INTERNAL MEDICINE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGIC DISORDERS; QUESTIONNAIRES; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 0346158096     PISSN: 10786791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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