New Canadian natural health product regulations: A qualitative study of how CAM practitioners perceive they will be impacted

BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine

Volumn 6, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Moss, Karen ^a   Boon, Heather ^b   Ballantyne, Peri ^b   Kachan, Natasha ^b  

^a Association of Ontario Health Centres   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE; ARTICLE; CANADA; CHINESE MEDICINE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CONTENT ANALYSIS; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; ETHNOGRAPHIC RESEARCH; GOVERNMENT REGULATION; HEALTH PRACTITIONER; HERBAL MEDICINE; HOMEOPATHY; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERVIEW; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SELF MEDICATION;

BIOLOGICAL AGENTS; CANADA; COMPLEMENTARY THERAPIES; FORECASTING; MATERIA MEDICA; NATUROPATHY; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; PLANTS, MEDICINAL; VITAMINS;

EID: 33745305193     PISSN: 14726882     EISSN: 14726882     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6882-6-18     Document Type: Article

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