Prevalence of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) use by the general population: a systematic review and update

By P. Harris, K. Cooper, C. Relton, K. Thomas. International journal of clinical practice, 2012

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Objectives:  To update previous systematic reviews of 12‐month prevalence of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) use by general populations; to explore trends in CAM use by national populations; to develop and apply a brief tool for assessing methodological quality of published CAM‐use prevalence surveys.

Subfields: Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology, Complementary and alternative medicine, Physiology

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• Attempting rigour and replicability in thematic analysis of qualitative research data; a case study of codebook development (2019, background): “Increasing numbers of patients are using complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) either as an adjunct, or as an alternative to standard mainstream care [11].”