Homeopathic treatment of elderly patients - A prospective observational study with follow-up over a two year period

BMC Geriatrics

Volumn 10, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Teut, Michael ^a   Lüdtke, Rainer ^b   Schnabel, Katharina ^a   Willich, Stefan N ^a   Witt, Claudia M ^a  

^a CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^b Karl und Veronica Carstens Stiftung   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; GERMANY; HOMEOPATHY; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; LONG TERM CARE; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MULTICENTER STUDY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITY OF LIFE; SLEEP DISORDER; SWITZERLAND;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; GERMANY; HOMEOPATHY; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; LONG-TERM CARE; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUALITY OF LIFE; SLEEP DISORDERS; SWITZERLAND;

EID: 77649334699     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712318     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2318-10-10     Document Type: Article

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