Referral to Chinese medicine practitioners in Australian primary care: A survey of New South Wales rural and regional general practitioners

Chinese Medicine (United Kingdom)

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Wardle, Jonathan L ^a,b   Sibbritt, David W ^a,b   Adams, Jon ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b Network of Researchers in the Public Health of Complementary and Alternative Medicine   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CHINESE MEDICINE; CHINESE MEDICINE PRACTITIONER; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HUMAN; PARAMEDICAL PERSONNEL; PATIENT REFERRAL; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; PROFESSIONAL KNOWLEDGE; QUESTIONNAIRE;

EID: 84875847074     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17498546     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1749-8546-8-8     Document Type: Article

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