Clinical research for complementary therapy : principles, problems and solutions /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Edinburgh :
Churchill Livingstone,
2002.
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Table of Contents:
- Balanced research strategies for complementary and alternative medicine
- The role of outcomes research in evaluating complementary and alternative medicine
- Inspiration and perspiration : what every researcher needs to know before they start
- Possible research strategies for evaluating CAM interventions
- Evaluating complementary medicine : lessons to be learned from evaluation research
- Improving patient care in complementary medicine : using clinical audit
- The placebo effect in complementary medicine
- Conducting multicenter and large trials in complementary and alternative medicine
- The importance of patient selection
- Investigating the safety of complementary medicine
- Systematic reviews and metaanalyses
- Economic evaluation of complementary therapies
- Herbal medicine
- Homeopathy
- Manual therapies
- Massage therapy research methods
- Research aspects of environmental medicine
- Acupuncture research methodology
- Research methodology for studies of prayer and distant healing
- Clinical research in naturopathic medicine