An investigation of multidisciplinary complex health care interventions - steps towards an integrative treatment model in the rehabilitation of People with Multiple Sclerosis

BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine

Volumn 12, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Skovgaard, Lasse ^a,b   Bjerre, Liv ^a   Haahr, Niels ^a   Paterson, Charlotte ^d   Launsø, Laila ^e   Boesen, Finn ^c   Nissen, Michael ^c   Ottesen, Mai Britt ^c   Mortensen, Christina ^c   Olsen, Anette ^c   Borch, Søren ^a   Mortensen, Birthe K ^a   Rasmussen, Gudrun A ^a   Sietam, Kirsten ^a   Staalkjær, Frank ^a   Pedersen, Karin ^a   Søndermark, Kirsten ^c  

^a The Danish MS Society   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^c The Danish MS Hospital   (Denmark)

^d UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HUMAN; INTEGRATIVE MEDICINE; LETTER; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; PHILOSOPHY;

COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; COMPLEMENTARY THERAPIES; DECISION SUPPORT TECHNIQUES; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; HUMANS; INDIVIDUALIZED MEDICINE; INTEGRATIVE MEDICINE; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS;

EID: 84862158949     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726882     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6882-12-50     Document Type: Letter

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