Are complementary medicine practitioners implementing evidence based practice?

Complementary Therapies in Medicine

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 128-136

  Leach, Matthew J ^a   Gillham, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Complementary and alternative medicine; Evidence based practice; Herbalism; Homeopathy; Naturopathy; Survey; Traditional chinese medicine

Indexed keywords

ACCESS TO INFORMATION; ADULT; ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE; ARTICLE; BOOK; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; CLINICAL RESEARCH; DATA BASE; DESCRIPTIVE RESEARCH; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; FEMALE; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HEALTH PRACTITIONER; HUMAN; INTERNET; MALE; PATIENT PREFERENCE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PROFESSIONAL KNOWLEDGE; SKILL; TRAINING;

ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; AUSTRALIA; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; COMPLEMENTARY THERAPIES; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HUMANS; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC;

EID: 79957954290     PISSN: 09652299     EISSN: 18736963     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ctim.2011.04.002     Document Type: Article

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