Public, nurse and medical practitioner attitude and practice of natural medicine

Complementary Therapies in Nursing and Midwifery

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 13-21

  Leach, Matthew J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b NONE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Attitude; Attitudes and CAM; Complementary therapies; Natural therapies; Nurse; Practitioner; Public, nurse and practitioner use; Utilisation

Indexed keywords

ACUPUNCTURE; ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CONTINUING EDUCATION; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HERBAL MEDICINE; HOMEOPATHY; HUMAN; HYPNOSIS; MANIPULATIVE MEDICINE; MASSAGE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; NURSE ATTITUDE; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT COUNSELING; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; PUBLIC OPINION; REVIEW; SAFETY;

EID: 0742306720     PISSN: 13536117     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1353-6117(03)00082-9     Document Type: Article

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