Complementary and alternative medicine is popular among chronic renal failure patients - renal teams must increase their competence to advise patients with respect to efficacy and safety

Evidence-Based Nursing

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 29-30

  Nowack, Rainer ^a   Birck, Rainer ^b  

^a Center for Nephrology and Dialysis   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

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EID: 84856724639     PISSN: 13676539     EISSN: 14689618     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/ebnurs-2011-100105     Document Type: Note

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