Investigation into Factors Influencing Roles, Relationships, and Referrals in Integrative Medicine

Abstract

This research has highlighted the significance of interprofessional relationships and multidisciplinary referral networks as pivotal in the efficacy of the IM clinics represented in this sample. Further research is needed to define the practitioner roles and the factors influencing referrals within IM.

Employing Evidence in Evaluating Complementary Therapies: Findings from an Ethnography of Integrative Pain Management at a Large Urban Pediatric Hospital

“…Much of the research on integration of CAM into the biomedical environment has focused on the perspectives of health care providers, leading past researchers to call for the incorporation of additional perspectives. 30,31 Parent and pediatric patient outlooks may be particularly informative in the development of a patient-centered pediatric health initiative. 32 Parent sociobehavioral characteristics, such as demographics, values, and beliefs, have been previously demonstrated to play a role in their decision-making regarding CAM use for children, pointing to the individual dynamics under consideration in CAM use.…”

Implicit and explicit attitudes towards conventional and complementary and alternative medicine treatments: Introduction of an Implicit Association Test

“…It is increasingly integrated in primary care settings (Gray and Orrock, 2014); however, physicians are often uncertain about the safety of herbal medicines (Clement et al, 2005), and people who take herbal medicines do not always tell their healthcare professionals (e.g., Faith et al, 2013;Jong et al, 2012;Shelley et al, 2009).…”

Nurse practitioner and physician assistant students' knowledge, attitudes, and perspectives of chiropractic

“…This gap in knowledge is reflected in the literature regarding mainstream providers' knowledge of other CAM modalities and contributes toward barriers to application in future practice. 6,7,[9][10][11][12][13][18][19][34][35][36][37] The majority of NP and PA students in this study were undecided as to whether chiropractic used evidence-based research to guide practice. Unfortunately, the lack of evidence-based education regarding chiropractic and other CAM therapies within the core curricula or mainstream health care education has also been shown to portray a hidden negative bias regarding integration of this modality.…”