Patients' interactions with physicians and complementary and alternative medicine practitioners: Older women with breast cancer and self-managed health care

Integrative Cancer Therapies

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 63-70

  Adler, Shelley R ^a,c   Wrubel, Judith ^a   Hughes, Ellen ^a   Beinfield, Harriet ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Chinese Medicine Works   (United States)

^c Osher Center for Integrative Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Breast cancer; Complementary and alternative medicine; Patient practitioner communication; Qualitative research

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; FEMALE; HEALTH BELIEF; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH PRACTITIONER; HELP SEEKING BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SELF CARE;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CALIFORNIA; COMMUNICATION; COMPLEMENTARY THERAPIES; DATA COLLECTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; PROFESSIONAL-PATIENT RELATIONS; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SELF CARE;

EID: 61849119629     PISSN: 15347354     EISSN: 1552695X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1534735408329410     Document Type: Article

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