Complementary or alternative - Does it matter in your questionnaire?

Journal of Complementary and Integrative Medicine

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2009, Pages

  Wilkinson, Jenny ^a  

^a CHARLES STURT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Alternative medicine; Complementary medicine; Survey

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RANDOM SAMPLE;

EID: 71049186314     PISSN: 15533840     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2202/1553-3840.1242     Document Type: Article

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