Information management and complementary alternative medicine: The anatomy of information about CAMs through PubMed

Internal and Emergency Medicine

Volumn 8, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 627-634

  Corrao, Salvatore ^a,b   Argano, Christiano ^a   Colomba, Daniela ^a   Ippolito, Calogero ^b   Gargano, Vincenzo ^b   Arcoraci, Vincenzo ^c   Licata, Giuseppe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PALERMO   (Italy)

^b National Relevance Hospital Trust   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MESSINA   (Italy)

Author keywords

CAM; Information management; Meta analysis; PubMed; RCT

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE;

DECISION SUPPORT TECHNIQUES; EVIDENCE-BASED PRACTICE;

EID: 84884533166     PISSN: 18280447     EISSN: 19709366     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11739-013-0997-8     Document Type: Article

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