Complementary and alternative medicine: Beyond users and nonusers

Complementary Therapies in Medicine

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 261-267

  Shmueli, Amir ^a,b   Shuval, Judith ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b GERTNER INSTITUTE FOR EPIDEMIOLOGY AND HEALTH POLICY RESEARCH   (Israel)

Author keywords

Complementary and alternative medicine (CAM); Heterogeneity; Israel; Logistic regression

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE; ARTICLE; CONSULTATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HEALTH PRACTITIONER; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; ISRAEL; JEW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PATIENT CODING; PATIENT REFERRAL; PHYSICIAN; POPULATION RESEARCH; URBAN POPULATION;

AGED; COMPLEMENTARY THERAPIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; ISRAEL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSICIANS; REFERRAL AND CONSULTATION; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 33750684018     PISSN: 09652299     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ctim.2005.10.005     Document Type: Article

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