What Complementary and Alternative Medicine Practitioners Say About Health and Health Care
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What complementary and alternative medicine practitioners say about health and health care.
BACKGROUND We wanted to explore the beliefs and practices of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) practitioners. METHODS A representative sample of local CAM practitioners was selected for 32 face-to-face in-depth interviews. Interviews were taped, transcribed, and reviewed by all coauthors. Analysis and interpretation were reached by consensus, using an iterative process in multidisc...
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عنوان ژورنال: The Annals of Family Medicine
سال: 2004
ISSN: 1544-1709,1544-1717
DOI: 10.1370/afm.81