In the past 10 years evidence - based medicine (EBM) has developed well in all aspects of allopathic medicine giving a new dimension to patient care including cost reduction and attention to medical ethics. With the public and medical community return to complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) in the last two decades there has been a call for evidence - based CAM … in the same way that all...

complementary and alternative medicine (cam) is frequently used in portugal and it contributes to the improvement of people’s health. cam and western medicine (wm) are taken as complements both in the diagnosis and the treatment stage. the portuguese health system is able to generate certified cam professionals but the provision of cam care and services is not included in the national health sy...

the treatments used by most doctors are considered conventional medicine. complementary and alternative medicine (cam) consists of a group of health care practices and products that are considered out of the mainstream. an “out-of-the-mainstream” treatment is considered complementary if you use it along with conventional medicine. research shows that 40 percent of women in the united states use...

Background Portugal has a strong tradition of conventional western healthcare. So it provides a natural case study for the relationship between Complementary/Alternative Medicine (CAM) and Western Medicine (WM). This work aims to test the relationship between CAM and WM users in the diagnosis and treatment stages and to estimate the determinants of CAM choice.   Methods The forth Portuguese Nat...

how to cite this article: tonekaboni sh, jafari naeini s, khajeh a, yaghini o, ghazavi a, abdollah gorji f. use of complementary and alternative medicine for epileptic children in tehran: a cross-sectional study (2009-2011). iran j child neurol. 2014 winter; 8(1):26-31. objective although the use of complementary and alternative medicine (cam) has been evaluated globally, there are few studies ...

Complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) is widely used by patients worldwide. Financial factors may influence the decision to use CAM. National Health Systems are requested to consider CAM in their health plans.

background portugal has a strong tradition of conventional western healthcare. so it provides a natural case study for the relationship between complementary/alternative medicine (cam) and western medicine (wm). this work aims to test the relationship between cam and wm users in the diagnosis and treatment stages and to estimate the determinants of cam choice.   methods the forth portuguese nat...

background: this study was done to assess the use of traditional/complementary and alternative medicine (tm/cam) during pregnancy and the reasons behind it from the mother’s perspective. materials and methods: in a cross-sectional study, 919 pregnant mothers attending at prenatal care units of governmental health centers recruited through a multistage sampling and completed a self-report questi...

BACKGROUND Few studies explain peoples' intentions to use complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) before conventional medicine. AIMS To examine the psychosocial factors associated with intention to try CAM before conventional medicine; to explore the predictors of initially seeking CAM in the adult population in Australia. DESIGN A cross sectional survey. METHODS 1256 adults were int...

use of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) is increasing rapidly. The World Health Organization (WHO) classifies 65–80% of the world's health care services as 'tradi-tional medicine' (1). Therefore, from the viewpoint of the population ratio, more people use CAM than modern western medicine. Although much attention has been focused on CAM not only from physicians but also basic medical...