Complementary and alternative medicine practices in military personnel and families presenting to a military emergency department

Military Medicine

Volumn 180, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 350-354

  Ross, Elliot M ^a   Darracq, Michael A ^b  

^a NAVAL MEDICAL CENTER SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^b University of California   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUPUNCTURE; ADULT; ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CHIROPRACTIC MANIPULATION; FEMALE; HOSPITAL EMERGENCY SERVICE; HUMAN; MALE; MILITARY FAMILY; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PHYTOTHERAPY; PSYCHOLOGY; PUBLIC HOSPITAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; SOLDIER; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; UTILIZATION;

ACUPUNCTURE THERAPY; ADULT; COMPLEMENTARY THERAPIES; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HOSPITALS, MILITARY; HUMANS; MALE; MANIPULATION, CHIROPRACTIC; MILITARY FAMILY; MILITARY PERSONNEL; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; PHYTOTHERAPY; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 84943546571     PISSN: 00264075     EISSN: 1930613X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7205/MILMED-D-14-00304     Document Type: Article

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