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Since the prevalence of visitors to CAM practitioners excluding chiropractors was similar in Norway and the USA in 2002 [ 5] and since the prevalence for practitioner based therapies like acupuncture has increased in USA [ 11], the prevalence seems to be is similar in the northern hemisphere but considerably lower than in Australia.
To explore the determinants of specialized outpatient care use (general practitioners excluded) in people with disabilities living in institutions.
Similarly, analyses were repeated with prescriptions from other specialties than general practitioners excluded.
Therefore, general practitioners excluded 5% of patients treated in primary care from participating in the study.
General practitioners excluded those who were unable to complete self administered questionnaires in English; had medical contraindications to physical activity; were being treated for psychosis, bipolar disorder, or major substance misuse; or were pregnant or breast feeding at the time of assessment.
Despite this, there is a tendency for medical practitioners, after excluding important pathological diagnoses, to discount patients' symptoms and lose interest in their care.
In addition, data for 2009 for each practice were provided to calculate the number of family practitioners (FP) excluding trainees, the number of patients per full time equivalent FP, the mean number of years since qualification of the FPs in each practice, the proportion of male FPs, and the proportion of FPs trained in the UK for their primary medical qualification.
Likewise, all practitioners living or working in Scotland were excluded due to the likely confounding effects of the simultaneous, ongoing national multifactorial educational campaign, Working Backs Scotland [ 15, 87].
Works aimed primarily at practitioners are excluded from this list.
Recruitment was through electronic health records rather than by professional invitation, but practitioners could exclude patients after identification.
Non-UK practitioners were excluded from the study by removing them from the professional register database sampling frames before the study sample was randomly selected.
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