Search strategies for retrieving complementary and alternative medicine clinical trials in oncology

Integrative Cancer Therapies

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 202-205

  Bardia, Aditya ^a   Wahner Roedler, Dietlind L ^a   Erwin, Patricia L ^a   Sood, Amit ^a,b  

^a Mayo Clinic College of Medicine   (United States)

^b Division of General Internal Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

CAM; CAM filter; Complementary medicine; Evidence; Medline; PubMed; Search

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDLINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLICATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

CLINICAL TRIALS; CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; COMPLEMENTARY THERAPIES; HUMANS; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; MEDICAL SUBJECT HEADINGS; NEOPLASMS; PUBMED; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 33746583094     PISSN: 15347354     EISSN: 1552695X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1534735406292146     Document Type: Article

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