IMPACT - Integrative Medicine PrimAry Care Trial: protocol for a comparative effectiveness study of the clinical and cost outcomes of an integrative primary care clinic model

IMPACT - Integrative Medicine PrimAry Care Trial: protocol for a comparative effectiveness study of the clinical and cost outcomes of an integrative primary care clinic model

BACKGROUND:Integrative medicine (IM) is a patient-centered, healing-oriented clinical paradigm that explicitly includes all appropriate therapeutic approaches whether they originate in conventional or complementary medicine (CM). While there is some evidence for the clinical and cost-effectiveness o...

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Main Authors: Herman, Patricia, Dodds, Sally, Logue, Melanie, Abraham, Ivo, Rehfeld, Rick, Grizzle, Amy, Urbine, Terry, Horwitz, Randy, Crocker, Robert, Maizes, Victoria
Other Authors: Health Unit, the RAND Corporation, Santa Monica, CA, USA
Language:en
Published: BioMed Central 2014
Subjects:
Integrative medicine
Observational study
Study protocol
Fidelity monitoring
Implementation fidelity
Complex interventions
Comparative effectiveness research
Healthcare utilization
Cost outcomes
Health services research
Online Access:Herman et al. BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine 2014, 14:132 http://www.biomedcentral.com/1472-6882/14/132
http://hdl.handle.net/10150/610366
http://arizona.openrepository.com/arizona/handle/10150/610366

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Herman et al. BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine 2014, 14:132 http://www.biomedcentral.com/1472-6882/14/132
http://hdl.handle.net/10150/610366
http://arizona.openrepository.com/arizona/handle/10150/610366

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