Complementary and alternative medicine in the United States

The Resource Complementary and alternative medicine in the United States

Label

Complementary and alternative medicine in the United States

Statement of responsibility

Committee on the Use of Complementary and Alternative Medicine by the American Public, Board on Health Promotion and Disease Prevention

Language

eng

Summary

Integration of complementary and alternative medicine therapies (CAM) with conventional medicine is occurring in hospitals and physicians offices, health maintenance organizations (HMOs) are covering CAM therapies, insurance coverage for CAM is increasing, and integrative medicine centers and clinics are being established, many with close ties to medical schools and teaching hospitals. In determining what care to provide, the goal should be comprehensive care that uses the best scientific evidence available regarding benefits and harm, encourages a focus on healing, recognizes the importance of compassion and caring, emphasizes the centrality of relationship-based care, encourages patients to share in decision making about therapeutic options, and promotes choices in care that can include complementary therapies where appropriate. Numerous approaches to delivering integrative medicine have evolved. Complementary and Alternative Medicine in the United States identifies an urgent need for health systems research that focuses on identifying the elements of these models, the outcomes of care delivered in these models, and whether these models are cost-effective when compared to conventional practice settings. It outlines areas of research in convention and CAM therapies, ways of integrating these therapies, development of curriculum that provides further education to health professionals, and an amendment of the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act to improve quality, accurate labeling, research into use of supplements, incentives for privately funded research into their efficacy, and consumer protection against all potential hazards

Action

digitized

Cataloging source

N$T

Dewey number

615.5/0973

Illustrations

illustrations
charts

Index

index present

LC call number

R733

LC item number

.I5633 2005eb

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

dictionaries
bibliography

NLM call number

WB 890

NLM item number

I59 2004

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