Sentence examples for the term integrative from inspiring English sources
In North Carolina in 2006, three academic health centers, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC), Duke University School of Medicine, and Wake Forest University School of Medicine (WFUSM), were among the 36 members of the Consortium who use the term "integrative medicine" to refer to evidence-based integration of diverse therapies into comprehensive care.
Domain identification was first performed by conducting a literature review using the term "integrative medicine" and searching Medline, PsychInfo, AMED.
At the same time, new terms were introduced that aimed to capture the increasing use of CAM in conventional medicine, particularly the term integrative medicine (IM).
For this reason, participants believed that "healthcare" was a more inclusive term when used along with the term "integrative" and therefore was more adequate for the discussion.
With reference to this merging of CAM with conventional biomedicine (COM) an increasing number of clinicians and researchers uses the term "integrative" medicine.
(FG participant 8) Of note, a majority of the focus group participants had major concerns about using the term "integrative medicine" as an alternative to "integrative healthcare," and so the latter was employed for the discussion.
However, the terms integrative healthcare (IHC) and integration of care have emerged in parallel, adding to the confusion since there is no consensus on their definitions.
(The terms "complementary," "integrative" and "alternative" are used interchangeably).
Unfortunately the implant may release titanium particles, thus reducing, in the long term, the integrative properties of a titanium prosthesis, producing inflammation, osteolysis and mobilization.
Here we introduce a new method, termed integrative omics-metabolic analysis (IOMA) that quantitatively integrates proteomic and metabolomic data with genome-scale metabolic models, to more accurately predict metabolic flux distributions.
We conclude that short-term, transportation objectives overrule longer-term, integrative objectives, which withholds strategic considerations required for aligning waterway interests.
