The NAFKAM international registry of exceptional courses of disease related to the use of complementary and alternative medicine

Global Advances In Health and Medicine

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 60-62

  Fønnebø, Vinjar ^a   Drageset, Brit J ^a   Salamonsen, Anita ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

Author keywords

CAM; Case reports; Complementary and alternative medicine; Exceptional courses of disease; Medical assessments; NAFKAM; Norway; Patient registry; Safety

Indexed keywords

ACUPUNCTURE; ALLERGY; ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; CHRONIC FATIGUE SYNDROME; CLINICAL RESEARCH; DATA BASE; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; DISEASE COURSE; EXPERIENCE; HEALING; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HOMEOPATHY; HUMAN; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; INFORMED CONSENT; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MASSAGE; MIGRAINE; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; NORWAY; PATIENT SAFETY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; REFLEXOLOGY; REGISTER; REMISSION; RHEUMATIC DISEASE; TOOTH FILLING; TREATMENT RESPONSE; ULCERATIVE COLITIS;

EID: 84966326907     PISSN: 2164957X     EISSN: 21649561     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7453/gahmj.2012.1.1.012     Document Type: Article

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