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Physician and patient attitudes towards complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) |
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| Statement |
Agree (%) |
Disagree (%) |
Neutral/Skipped (%) |
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| Clinical care should integrate the best conventional and CAM practices.* |
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| Physician |
281 (73.8) |
29 (7.6) |
71 (18.6) |
| Patient |
196 (40.8) |
4 (0.8) |
280 (58.3) |
| CAM includes areas and methods from which conventional medicine could benefit.* |
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| Physician |
279 (73.2) |
23 (6.0) |
79 (20.7) |
| Patient |
192 (40.0) |
10 (2.1) |
278 (57.9) |
| CAM approaches hold promise for treatment of symptoms, conditions and/or diseases.* |
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| Physician |
226 (59.3) |
39 (10.2) |
116 (30.5) |
| Patient |
169 (35.2) |
12 (2.5) |
299 (62.3) |
| While a few CAM approaches may have limited health benefits, they have no true impact on treatment of symptoms, conditions and/or diseases.* |
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| Physician |
93 (24.4) |
178 (46.7) |
110 (28.9) |
| Patient |
51 (10.6) |
129 (26.9) |
300 (62.5) |
| Health professionals should be able to advise their patients about commonly used CAM methods.* |
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| Physician |
259 (68.0) |
26 (6.8) |
96 (25.2) |
| Patient |
209 (43.5) |
19 (4.0) |
252 (52.5) |
| CAM is a threat to public health.* |
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| Physician |
34 (8.9) |
252 (66.1) |
95 (24.9) |
| Patient |
23 (4.8) |
205 (42.7) |
252 (52.5) |
| Knowledge about CAM is important to me as a patient.* |
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| Physician |
209 (54.9) |
56 (14.7) |
116 (30.5) |
| Patient |
171 (35.6) |
20 (4.2) |
289 (60.2) |
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* P-value is for comparison of strongly agree/agree vs. disagree/neutral/skipped; all p values < .001. | |||
Furlow et al. BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine 2008 8:35 doi:10.1186/1472-6882-8-35 |
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