Health-care sector and complementary medicine: Practitioners’ experiences of delivering acupuncture in the public and private sectors

Primary Health Care Research and Development

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 269-278

  Bishop, Felicity L ^a   Amos, Nicola ^a,b   yu, He ^c   Lewith, George T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b SALISBURY DISTRICT HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE MEDICINE   (China)

Author keywords

acupuncture; health personnel; private sector; public sector; qualitative research

Indexed keywords

ACUPUNCTURE; ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; MALE; NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; STATISTICS; UNITED KINGDOM; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

ACUPUNCTURE THERAPY; COMPLEMENTARY THERAPIES; FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; HEALTH SERVICES; HUMANS; MALE; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; PRIVATE SECTOR; PUBLIC SECTOR; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; STATE MEDICINE;

EID: 84871695720     PISSN: 14634236     EISSN: 14771128     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1463423612000035     Document Type: Article

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