Hospital-Based Integrative Medicine
A Case Study of the Barriers and Factors Facilitating the Creation of a Center
ResearchPublished May 28, 2007
Current integrative medicine practices in hospital settings involve some form of partnership between complementary and alternative medicine and biomedicine. This five-year study adopted a longitudinal methodology to track the establishment of a single hospital-based Integrative Medicine Center. Using extensive qualitative interview data, the project staff conducted a stakeholder analysis of all participants involved in the establishment and continuation of the Integrative Medicine Center and collected data from hospital documents, patient files, patient questionnaires and provider questionnaires. Although some factors clearly worked in favor of the center, the hospital had few models to guide it and no experience in creating such a clinic. Thus, it made many decisions in the areas of administration, finance, and legal issues that created barriers to the center's success, and the center was ultimately closed.
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- Year: 2007
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- Document Number: MG-591-NCCAM
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Coulter, Ian D., Marcia A. Ellison, Lara Hilton, Hilary J. Rhodes, and Gery W. Ryan, Hospital-Based Integrative Medicine: A Case Study of the Barriers and Factors Facilitating the Creation of a Center, RAND Corporation, MG-591-NCCAM, 2007. As of September 12, 2024: https://www.rand.org/pubs/monographs/MG591.html
Coulter, Ian D., Marcia A. Ellison, Lara Hilton, Hilary J. Rhodes, and Gery W. Ryan, Hospital-Based Integrative Medicine: A Case Study of the Barriers and Factors Facilitating the Creation of a Center. Santa Monica, CA: RAND Corporation, 2007. https://www.rand.org/pubs/monographs/MG591.html. Also available in print form.
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