Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine in Inpatient Care: Take a Look at Europe

Journal of Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 87-93

  Romeyke, Tobias ^a   Stummer, Harald ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY FOR HEALTH SCIENCES   (Austria)

^b Pain Therapy and Patient Centred Integrative Medicine   (Germany)

Author keywords

alternative medicine; complementary medicine; complex therapy; evidence based CAM; integrative medicine; patient centered medicine

Indexed keywords

ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; GERMANY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; PATIENT CARE;

COMPLEMENTARY THERAPIES; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; GERMANY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; NATUROPATHY; PATIENT-CENTERED CARE;

EID: 84924785524     PISSN: 21565872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/2156587214555714     Document Type: Article

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