Receiving money for medicine: Some tensions and resolutions for community-based private complementary therapists

Health and Social Care in the Community

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 155-167

  Andrews, Gavin J ^a   Peter, Elizabeth ^a   Hammond, Robin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Business; Complementary medicine; Ethics; Private sector; User charges

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; COMMUNITY CARE; ECONOMICS; EMPIRICAL APPROACH; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE AND PUBLIC HEALTH; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; LITERATURE; MALE; MEDICAL ETHICS; MIDDLE AGED; QUESTIONNAIRE; REIMBURSEMENT; STANDARD; UNITED KINGDOM; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

EMPIRICAL APPROACH; HEALTH CARE AND PUBLIC HEALTH;

ADULT; AGED; ANECDOTES; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES; COMPLEMENTARY THERAPIES; ETHICS, MEDICAL; FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROFESSIONAL-PATIENT RELATIONS; QUESTIONNAIRES; REIMBURSEMENT MECHANISMS;

EID: 0642368763     PISSN: 09660410     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2524.2003.00407.x     Document Type: Article

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