Opportunities of conventional evaluation in complementary and alternative medicine;Möglichkeiten konventioneller evaluation in der komplementä rmedizin

Zeitschrift fur Arztliche Fortbildung und Qualitatssicherung

Volumn 99, Issue 4-5, 2005, Pages 307-311

  Willich, Stefan N ^a  

^a CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Comparative study; Complementary and alternative medicine; Cross sectional study; Evaluation; Meta analysis; Observational study; Randomised clinical trial

Indexed keywords

ACUPUNCTURE; ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE; CHINESE MEDICINE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HOMEOPATHY; MANIPULATIVE MEDICINE; META ANALYSIS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REVIEW;

CLINICAL MEDICINE; COMPLEMENTARY THERAPIES; HEALTH POLICY; HUMANS; QUALITY ASSURANCE, HEALTH CARE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 22044457771     PISSN: 14317621     EISSN: 16180992     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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