The use of complementary and alternative medicine in outpatients with inflammatory rheumatic diseases in Sweden

Scandinavian Journal of Rheumatology

Volumn 38, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 472-480

  Klingberg, E ^a   Wallerstedt, S M ^a   Torstenson, T ^b   Hwi, G ^a   Forsblad D'Elia, H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^b Department of Rheumatology ^*  (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALOE VERA EXTRACT; CALCIUM; GINGER EXTRACT; GLUCOSAMINE; IMMUNOMODULATING AGENT; OMEGA 3 FATTY ACID; RHODIOLA ROSEA EXTRACT; WARFARIN;

ACUPUNCTURE; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; ALLERGIC CHOCK; ALOE VERA; ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE; ANKYLOSING SPONDYLITIS; AORTA ARCH SYNDROME; ARTHRITIS; ARTICLE; CHIROPRACTIC; CIMICIFUGA RACEMOSA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ACTIVITY; DISEASE DURATION; EVENING PRIMROSE; FATIGUE; FEMALE; GIANT CELL ARTERITIS; GOUT; HEALTH ASSESSMENT QUESTIONNAIRE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH SURVEY; HOMEOPATHY; HUMAN; IMMUNOMODULATION; INFLAMMATORY DISEASE; JUVENILE RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; MAGNETOTHERAPY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MASSAGE; MENTAL COMPONENT SCORE; MENTAL HEALTH; MICROSCOPIC POLYANGIITIS; MULTIPLE FATIGUE INVENTORY 20; OSTEOARTHRITIS; OUTPATIENT; OUTPATIENT DEPARTMENT; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PHYSICAL COMPONENT SCORE; POLYARTERITIS NODOSA; POLYARTHRITIS; POLYCHONDRITIS; POLYMYOSITIS; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSORIATIC ARTHRITIS; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RASH; REACTIVE ARTHRITIS; RHEUMATIC DISEASE; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SARCOIDOSIS; SCORING SYSTEM; SEX RATIO; SHORT FORM 36; SJOEGREN SYNDROME; SWEDEN; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS; TENDINITIS; TRADITIONAL MEDICINE; URTICARIA; VASCULITIS; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE; WEGENER GRANULOMATOSIS; YOGA;

COMPLEMENTARY THERAPIES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); OUTPATIENTS; PATIENT SATISFACTION; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RHEUMATIC DISEASES; SWEDEN;

EID: 70450186033     PISSN: 03009742     EISSN: 15027732     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/03009740902994280     Document Type: Article

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