Oncology clinicians' accounts of discussing complementary and alternative medicine with their patients

Health

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 317-336

  Broom, Alex ^a,c   Adams, Jon ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Alternative medicine; Australia; Cancer; Complementary medicine; Qualitative

Indexed keywords

ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; INTERVIEW; NURSE PATIENT RELATIONSHIP; ONCOLOGY; SOCIAL SUPPORT;

COMMUNICATION; COMPLEMENTARY THERAPIES; DISCLOSURE; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MEDICAL ONCOLOGY; NURSE-PATIENT RELATIONS; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; QUEENSLAND; SOCIAL SUPPORT;

EID: 65249148512     PISSN: 13634593     EISSN: 14617196     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1363459308101806     Document Type: Article

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