Referral patterns and attitudes of primary care physicians towards chiropractors

BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine

Volumn 6, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Greene, Barry R ^a   Smith, Monica ^b   Allareddy, Veerasathpurush ^a   Haas, Mitchell ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b PALMER CENTER FOR CHIROPRACTIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^c Western States Chiropractic College   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHIROPRACTIC; CHIROPRACTIC PRACTICE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DESCRIPTIVE RESEARCH; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERDISCIPLINARY COMMUNICATION; MALE; MEDICAL PRACTICE; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; NORMAL HUMAN; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT INFORMATION; PATIENT REFERRAL; PATIENT SAFETY; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; PRIVATE PRACTICE; PROFESSIONALISM; UNITED STATES;

CHIROPRACTIC; COMPLEMENTARY THERAPIES; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; INTERPROFESSIONAL RELATIONS; IOWA; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; REFERRAL AND CONSULTATION;

EID: 33646229565     PISSN: 14726882     EISSN: 14726882     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6882-6-5     Document Type: Article

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