An investigation of the contents of complementary and alternative medicine journals

Alternative Therapies in Health and Medicine

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 40-44

  Coelho, Helen F ^a   Pittler, Max H ^a   Ernst, Edzard ^a  

^a PLYMOUTH UNIVERSITY PENINSULA SCHOOLS OF MEDICINE AND DENTISTRY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE; ARTICLE; CONTENT ANALYSIS; DATA ANALYSIS; EVALUATION; HUMAN; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDLINE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PUBLICATION; BIBLIOMETRICS; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; EPIDEMIOLOGY; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; PUBLISHING; STANDARD; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES;

BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); BIBLIOMETRICS; COMPLEMENTARY THERAPIES; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIALS; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; HUMANS; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; JOURNALISM, MEDICAL; PERIODICALS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 34548558976     PISSN: 10786791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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