Characteristics and job satisfaction of general practitioners using complementary and alternative medicine in Germany - is there a pattern?

BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine

Volumn 11, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Joos, Stefanie ^a   Musselmann, Berthold ^a,b   Szecsenyi, Joachim ^a   Goetz, Katja ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUPUNCTURE; ADULT; ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; GERMANY; HEALTH INSURANCE; HUMAN; JOB SATISFACTION; LIFESTYLE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL PRACTICE; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUESTIONNAIRE; SMOKING; WORK CAPACITY; WORK SCHEDULE; WORKLOAD; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT;

ADULT; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; COMPLEMENTARY THERAPIES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTITIONERS; GERMANY; HUMANS; JOB SATISFACTION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 83655196880     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726882     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6882-11-131     Document Type: Article

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