Homeopathic medical practice: Long-term results of a cohort study with 3981 patients

BMC Public Health

Volumn 5, Issue , 2005, Pages

  Witt, Claudia M ^a   Lüdtke, Rainer ^b   Baur, Roland ^a   Willich, Stefan N ^a  

^a CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^b Karl und Veronica Carstens Stiftung   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALLERGIC RHINITIS; ARTICLE; ATOPIC DERMATITIS; CHILD; CHRONIC DISEASE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONSULTATION; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; GENERAL CONDITION IMPROVEMENT; GERMANY; HOMEOPATHY; HUMAN; INDUSTRIALIZATION; LONG TERM CARE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; MEDICAL PRACTICE; MIGRAINE; MULTICENTER STUDY; OBSERVATION; PHYSICIAN; PREDICTION; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUALITY OF LIFE; RATING SCALE; SWITZERLAND; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ADOLESCENT; AGE; CLASSIFICATION; DERMATITIS, ATOPIC; HEADACHE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PROCEDURES; RHINITIS, ALLERGIC, PERENNIAL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TIME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; CHILD; CHRONIC DISEASE; DERMATITIS, ATOPIC; FEMALE; GERMANY; HEADACHE; HOMEOPATHY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVATION; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RHINITIS, ALLERGIC, PERENNIAL; SWITZERLAND; TIME; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 28744431933     PISSN: 14712458     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-5-115     Document Type: Article

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