Decisions to use complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) by male cancer patients: Information-seeking roles and types of evidence used

BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine

Volumn 7, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Evans, Maggie ^a   Shaw, Alison ^a   Thompson, Elizabeth A ^b   Falk, Stephen ^c   Turton, Pat ^d   Thompson, Trevor ^a   Sharp, Deborah ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b Bristol Homeopathic Hospital   (United Kingdom)

^c BRISTOL HAEMATOLOGY AND ONCOLOGY CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST OF ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CANCER CLASSIFICATION; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER STAGING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLORECTAL CANCER; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEALTH PRACTITIONER; HUMAN; LUNG CANCER; MALE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL INFORMATION; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PROSTATE CANCER; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; UNITED KINGDOM; DECISION MAKING; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE; NEOPLASM; PATIENT; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SELF CARE; UTILIZATION REVIEW; VERBAL COMMUNICATION;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COMPLEMENTARY THERAPIES; DECISION MAKING; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; GREAT BRITAIN; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NARRATION; NEOPLASMS; PATIENTS; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SELF CARE; STATE MEDICINE;

EID: 35148890681     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726882     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6882-7-25     Document Type: Article

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