A preliminary audit investigating remedy reactions including adverse events in routine homeopathic practice

Homeopathy

Volumn 93, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 203-209

  Thompson, E ^a   Barron, S ^a   Spence, D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS BRISTOL NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

adverse events; aggravations; audit; old symptoms

Indexed keywords

HOMEOPATHIC AGENT;

AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; ANXIETY; ARTHRALGIA; ARTICLE; BURNING SENSATION; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COUGHING; DIARRHEA; DISEASE EXACERBATION; DRY EYE; DRY SKIN; ECZEMA; EDEMA; ENDOCRINE DISEASE; EYE DISEASE; FATIGUE; FLU LIKE SYNDROME; FOLLOW UP; FOOT PAIN; HAIR LOSS; HEADACHE; HEALING; HOMEOPATHY; HUMAN; INDIGESTION; JOINT STIFFNESS; LETHARGY; LOW BACK PAIN; MIGRAINE; MOOD DISORDER; MUSCLE CRAMP; MYALGIA; NAUSEA; NOSE INFECTION; OUTPATIENT DEPARTMENT; PATIENT CARE; PHOTOSENSITIVITY; PRURITUS; PSORIASIS; QUESTIONNAIRE; RASH; SKIN INFLAMMATION; SKIN IRRITATION; TENSION HEADACHE; TINNITUS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VERRUCA VULGARIS; VOMITING; XEROSTOMIA;

ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GREAT BRITAIN; HOMEOPATHY; HUMANS; MALE; MATERIA MEDICA; MEDICAL AUDIT; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT SATISFACTION; QUESTIONNAIRES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 4744339267     PISSN: 14754916     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.homp.2004.07.007     Document Type: Article

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