Mainstream and alternative medicine: Converging paths require common standards

被引：14
作者：
Bondurant, S [1 ]
Sox, HC [1 ]
机构：
[1] Georgetown Univ, Sch Med, Washington, DC 20057 USA
来源：
ANNALS OF INTERNAL MEDICINE | 2005年 / 142卷 / 02期
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D O I：
10.7326/0003-4819-142-2-200501180-00015
中图分类号：
R5 [内科学];
学科分类号：
1002 ; 100201 ;
摘要：
Ignoring complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) is not an option. The widespread use of CAM by patients is a mandate to the scientific community to improve our relatively weak scientific understanding of CAM practices. Moreover, health professionals have a duty to their patients to bring these two worlds of contemporary medical practice closer together. The path to this outcome begins with adopting the same standards of evidence.
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