Complementary therapies: Time to regulate?

Practising Midwife

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 14-19

  Tiran, Denise ^a  

^a Expectancy Ltd   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; EDUCATION; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; LEGAL ASPECT; MIDWIFE; NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE; NURSE ATTITUDE; NURSING; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; REVIEW; UNITED KINGDOM;

ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; COMPLEMENTARY THERAPIES; FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; MATERNAL HEALTH SERVICES; MIDWIFERY; NURSE'S ROLE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; STATE MEDICINE;

EID: 33947536248     PISSN: 14613123     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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