Evidence summaries and synthesis: Necessary but insufficient approach for determining clinical practice of integrated medicine?

Integrative Cancer Therapies

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 282-286

  Coulter, Ian D ^a,b  

^a Samueli Institute   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Clinical practice; Evidence synthesis; Systematic reviews

Indexed keywords

ALPHA TOCOPHEROL; ANTIOXIDANT; ASCORBIC ACID;

ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE; AYURVEDA; BIOSIS; CANCER RESEARCH; CANCER THERAPY; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CLINICAL RESEARCH; COCHRANE LIBRARY; DIABETES MELLITUS; EMBASE; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; INTEGRATIVE MEDICINE; MEDLINE; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFERENCE DATABASE; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; REVIEW;

CLINICAL PROTOCOLS; COMPLEMENTARY THERAPIES; EPIDEMIOLOGIC RESEARCH DESIGN; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS; REVIEW LITERATURE;

EID: 33750892150     PISSN: 15347354     EISSN: 1552695X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1534735406295564     Document Type: Review

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