Combination treatment of people with multiple sclerosis based on collaboration between conventional healthcare providers and alternative practitioners-patient perspectives on outcomes

Journal of Complementary and Integrative Medicine

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Skovgaard, Lasse ^a   Launsø, Laila ^b   Pedersen, Inge Kryger ^a   Bjerre, Liv ^c   Haahr, Niels ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

^c Danish Multiple Sclerosis Society   (Denmark)

Author keywords

CAM; combination treatment; complementary and alternative medicine; team based treatment

Indexed keywords

ACUPUNCTURE; ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; DENMARK; DIET THERAPY; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HUMAN; LIFE; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PERCEPTION; PERSONAL EXPERIENCE; PHYSIOTHERAPY; REFLEXOLOGY; REVIEW; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ACUPUNCTURE; AGED; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; COMPLEMENTARY THERAPIES; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; DENMARK; FEMALE; HOMEOPATHY; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; MASSAGE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 80053476912     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15533840     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2202/1553-3840.1409     Document Type: Review

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