نتایج جستجو برای: alternative medicine

تعداد نتایج: 544490  

ژورنال: طب مکمل 2014

  Complementary alternative medicine has been noticed by many patients, particularly with chronic disease such as diabetes mellitus. Present study was conducted to estimate frequency of use of complementary alternative medicine among diabetic patients .   The studied patients were randomly selected from whom referred to endocrinology clinic in a university teaching hospital in Qazvin city, Iran...

Journal: :Evidence-based Complementary and Alternative Medicine 2006
Amir Shmueli Judith Shuval

Higher utilization of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) is commonly explained by dissatisfaction or disappointment with conventional medical treatment. To explore, at two points in time in Israel, the associations between six domains of satisfaction (attitude, length of visits, availability, information sharing, perceived quality of care and overall) with conventional family physicia...

2011
Robert Zachariae Helle Johannessen

In spite of lacking evidence for effects on cancer progression itself, an increasing number of cancer patients use various types of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM). There is disagreement between CAM practitioners, researchers and clinical oncologists, as to how evidence concerning effects of CAM can and should be produced, and how the existing evidence should be interpreted. This r...

2016
Nick Dalton-Brewer

This article discusses the role of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) in the management of fibroids and associated symptomatology. Since there is such a paucity of direct research related to fibroids, conditions that are implicated in the causation of uterine fibroids and symptomatology that CAM treatments may or have been shown to make a difference are also considered.

Journal: :Annals of the Academy of Medicine, Singapore 2010
Wen Hann Chow Pearlly Chang Soo Chin Lee Alvin Wong Han Ming Shen Helena Marieke Verkooijen

INTRODUCTION This study evaluates determinants, expectations, association with quality of life (QOL) and doctor's awareness of Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) use in Singapore cancer patients. MATERIAL AND METHODS We interviewed 316 patients visiting the Cancer Centre of the National University Hospital on behaviour, attitudes and expectations towards CAM and assessed QOL via Eur...

Journal: :Archives of internal medicine 2002
Lisa Corbin Winslow Howard Shapiro

BACKGROUND More than one third of patients in the United States use complementary and alternative medicine (CAM); most also visit conventional physicians. There is little information about how physicians and patients discuss CAM. We hypothesized that physicians frequently fielded questions about CAM treatments but felt uncomfortable discussing them owing to a lack of education. OBJECTIVES To ...

2004

Complementary and alternative medicine (CAM)—also referred to as integrative medicine—includes a broad range of healing philosophies, approaches, and therapies. A therapy is generally called complementary when it is used in addition to conventional treatments; it is often called alternative when it is used instead of conventional treatment. (Conventional treatments are those that are widely acc...

2016
Daniel Asfaw Erku Abebe Basazn Mekuria

Background. Complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) therapies are being widely used by hypertensive patients worldwide. However, evidences regarding CAM use by hypertensive patients in Ethiopia are limited. This study aimed at assessing prevalence and correlates of CAM use among hypertensive patients attending ambulatory clinic at Gondar University Referral Hospital (GURH), Ethiopia. Metho...

2009
Sun Myeong Ock Jun Yeong Choi Young Soo Cha JungBok Lee Mi Son Chun Chang Hun Huh Soon Young Lee Sung Jae Lee

The purpose of this survey was to obtain information on the prevalence, costs, and patterns of use of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) in a general population in the Republic of Korea. In 2006, we conducted nationwide and population-weighted personal interviews with 6,021 adults ranging from 30 to 69 yr of age; the final sample consisted of 3,000 people with a 49.8% response rate. I...

2018
Tobias Romeyke Elisabeth Noehammer Hans Christoph Scheuer Harald Stummer

Objectives The aim of this article is to study patient satisfaction with complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) in an in-hospital setting before and after the introduction of diagnosis-related groups (DRGs). Methods Patients were interviewed regarding a general evaluation of their hospital stay, the psychological talking therapy, the nutrition therapy, and the overall success of the tre...

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