Perceived benefit of Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) for back pain: A national survey

Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 354-362

  Kanodia, Anup K ^a   Legedza, Anna T R ^b   Davis, Roger B ^a   Eisenberg, David M ^a,c   Phillips, Russell S ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b VERTEX PHARMACEUTICALS   (United States)

^c BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Alternative medicine; Back pain; Chiropractic; Chronic disease; Complementary medicine; Primary health care

Indexed keywords

ACUPUNCTURE; ADULT; AGED; ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE; ARTICLE; BACKACHE; CHIROPRACTIC; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH SURVEY; HERBAL MEDICINE; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MASSAGE; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; PATIENT REFERRAL; PERCEPTION; PREVALENCE; RELAXATION TRAINING; TAI CHI; UNITED STATES; YOGA;

ACUPUNCTURE; ADULT; AGED; BACK PAIN; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; DATA COLLECTION; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MANIPULATION, CHIROPRACTIC; MASSAGE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; ODDS RATIO; PHYTOTHERAPY; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; RELAXATION THERAPY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; TAI JI; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOGA;

EID: 77952224155     PISSN: 15572625     EISSN: 15587118     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3122/jabfm.2010.03.080252     Document Type: Article

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