Traditional Korean medicine practitioners' attitudes toward evidence based medicine: A qualitative study

European Journal of Integrative Medicine

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2012, Pages

  Woo, Ji Myung ^a   Cho, Seung Hun ^b  

^a Kyung Hee University   (South Korea)

^b Kyung Hee University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Complementary and alternative medicine; Evidence based medicine; Qualitative study; Semi structured interview; Traditional Korean medicine

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; EDUCATION; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HUMAN; KOREAN MEDICINE; LANGUAGE; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SEMI STRUCTURED INTERVIEW;

EID: 84872378023     PISSN: 18763820     EISSN: 18763839     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eujim.2012.09.004     Document Type: Article

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