The Social Enterprise Conference offers an opportunity to explore these questions alongside passionate individuals with diverse perspectives who might not otherwise come together: Students connect with practitioners, and practitioners across disciplines connect with one another.
Naturopaths use a wide variety of information sources to obtain information on CAM, although conventional health care practitioners and practitioners from another CAM discipline were not widely used as a resource to access information.
†p ≤.1, * p ≤.05; ** p ≤.01; *** p ≤.001 Significance levels presented in the third column of the table refer to the differences in opinions between researchers, researchers and practitioners, and practitioners; significance levels presented in the sixth column refer to the differences in opinions between large and small panels.
There is a need to critically and qualitatively appraise the government infrastructure to support TCA, identify barriers and facilitators to integration that have emerged from this rapid placement of these practitioners, and how these TCA practitioners, allopathic practitioners and health system actors are reacting and adapting to each factor.
Self-reported measures give a good amount of information about individual health since people summarize all the health information they have from their practitioners (general practitioners and specialists) and from what they feel [1].
Significant increases were seen in use of body work practitioners (including Reiki practitioners, massage therapists, therapeutic touch practitioners and shiatsu practitioners), acupuncturists/traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) practitioners, homeopathic practitioners and a general "other" category in 2005 compared to 1998.
We surveyed 500 general practitioners, family practitioners and general internists between 9 February and 1 March 2011.
In Australia, standardized chronic disease management algorithms are available for medical practitioners, nursing practitioners and nurses through a range of sources including prescribing software, manuals and through government and not-for-profit non-government organizations.
Doctolib is a marketplace matching patients with health practitioners — 70,000 practitioners and 1,400 medical institutions use it in France and Germany.
Physicians (general practitioners, internists, practitioners and diabetologists) were selected based on a conditioned random sampling method.
Healthcare providers at the facilities included medical officers, clinical officers, nurse practitioners, pharmacy practitioners, and records officers.
