Types of treatment collaboration between conventional and alternative practitioners—results from a research project at a danish ms hospital

International Journal of Integrated Care

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2010, Pages

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b Danish Multiple Sclerosis Society   (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

Author keywords

Cam; Health planning; Health policy; Individual care plan; Integrative medicine; Patient care management; Patient centred care; Primary health care

Indexed keywords

EID: 84859822618     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15684156     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5334/ijic.540     Document Type: Article

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