Informed Consent in Complementary and Alternative Medicine
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Informed Consent in Complementary and Alternative Medicine
The objective of this study was to examine complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) practitioners' (i) attitudes toward informed consent and (ii) to assess whether standards of practice exist with respect to informed consent, and what these standards look like. The design and setting of the study constituted face-to-face qualitative interviews with 28 non-MD, community-based providers repre...
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عنوان ژورنال: Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine
سال: 2011
ISSN: 1741-427X,1741-4288
DOI: 10.1093/ecam/nep032