Surveys of complementary and alternative medicine usage: A scoping study of the paediatric literature

Complementary Therapies in Medicine

Volumn 21, Issue SUPPL.1, 2013, Pages

  Surette, Soleil ^a   Vanderjagt, Leah ^a   Vohra, Sunita ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Complementary and alternative medicine; Paediatric; Utilisation

Indexed keywords

ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER; AUTISM; EMBASE; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HEALTH INSURANCE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; KNOWLEDGE; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDLINE; NEOPLASM; NORTH AMERICA; PEDIATRICS; RELIGION; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; VITAMIN SUPPLEMENTATION;

ASTHMA; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER WITH HYPERACTIVITY; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT DISORDERS, PERVASIVE; COMPLEMENTARY THERAPIES; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HEALTH SERVICES NEEDS AND DEMAND; HUMANS; NEOPLASMS; NORTH AMERICA; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; PEDIATRICS; RESEARCH DESIGN;

EID: 84876159509     PISSN: 09652299     EISSN: 18736963     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ctim.2011.08.006     Document Type: Article

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