Challenges and future directions for integrative medicine in clinical practice: 'Integrative', 'complementary' and 'alternative' medicine

Evidence-Based Integrative Medicine

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 117-122

  Cohen, Marc ^a  

^a RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH PRACTITIONER; MEDICAL PRACTICE; REVIEW;

EID: 33645530704     PISSN: 11762330     EISSN: 11762330     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2165/01197065-200502030-00002     Document Type: Review

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