A multicenter study of complementary and alternative medicine usage among ED patients

Academic Emergency Medicine

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 377-380

  Kim, Sunghye ^a   Hohrmann, Jessica L ^a   Clark, Sunday ^a   Munoz, Karla N ^a   Braun, Josef E ^a   Doshi, Arpi ^a   Radeos, Michael S ^c   Camargo Jr , Carlos A ^a,b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c LINCOLN MEDICAL AND MENTAL HEALTH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Complementary and alternative medicine; Emergency department

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE; ARTICLE; CHRONIC PAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; EDUCATION; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE; HERBAL MEDICINE; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; LANGUAGE; MALE; MANIPULATIVE MEDICINE; PATIENT INFORMATION; PREDICTION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL MODEL;

EID: 15944413433     PISSN: 10696563     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1197/j.aem.2005.02.008     Document Type: Article

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