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Journal Article

Researching the Appropriateness of Care in the Complementary and Integrative Health Professions: Part 5: Selection, Protection, and Abstraction

Of the records abstracted, many revealed incomplete provider documentation regarding the details of and rationale for care. Better documentation and more standardized record keeping would facilitate future research using patient records.

Jun 11, 2020
Journal Article

Researching the Appropriateness of Care in the Complementary and Integrative Health Professions: Part 4: Putting Practice Back Into Evidence-based Practice by Recruiting Clinics and Patients

This study found that clinics can be successfully recruited for practice-based studies, and patients can be recruited using iPads. Obtaining patient records presents considerable challenges, and clinics varied in whether they had electronic files, nonelectronic records, or a mixture.

Jun 10, 2020
Journal Article

Coping and Management Techniques Used by Chronic Low Back Pain Patients Receiving Treatment From Chiropractors

Persons with chronic back pain were proactive in their coping strategies and frequently used self-care coping strategies like those provided by chiropractors in patient education. In alignment with patients' beliefs that their condition was chronic and lifelong, many patients attempted a wide range of coping strategies to relieve their pain.

Jun 9, 2020
Journal Article

The Research Crisis in American Institutions of Complementary and Integrative Health: One Proposed Solution for Chiropractic Profession

The future success of CIH-directed research on CIH will require a pooling of talent and resources across institutions; something that the American chiropractic institutions have not yet been able to achieve. This article discusses one possible solution.

May 5, 2020
Journal Article

Group and Individual-level Change on Health-related Quality of Life in Chiropractic Patients With Chronic Low Back or Neck Pain

This study suggests some benefits of chiropractic on functioning and well-being of patients with low back pain or neck pain.

Mar 31, 2020
Announcement

RAND Establishes Center to Advance Complementary and Integrative Health Research

RAND has launched the Center for Collaborative Research in Complementary and Integrative Health, a first-of-its-kind effort intended to bolster research expertise and participation at colleges that train practitioners in complementary and integrative health.

Feb 12, 2020
Journal Article

The Problematic Economics of Integrative Oncology

The economics of integrative oncology are problematic because of the lack of good studies, the lack of historic incentives for efficiency, and the high cost of cancer care and its financial toxicity on patients. However, these problems can be overcome, with help from one good economic evaluation at a time.

Jun 11, 2019
Multimedia

Integrative Health: Moving from Marginal to Mainstream

In this Events @ RAND podcast, some of the nation's leading integrative health experts discuss the path forward for incorporating evidence-based complementary and alternative treatments into standard patient care, medical training, and policymaking.

Sep 20, 2018
Journal Article

Cognitive and Mind-Body Therapies for Chronic Low Back Pain and Neck Pain: Effectiveness and Value

A recent Institute for Clinical and Economic Review provides evidence that some cognitive and mind-body therapies are effective for chronic low back pain and also cost-effective.

Apr 18, 2018
News Release

More Than 80% of Military Health Facilities Now Offer Complementary and Alternative Medicine Treatments

More than 80 percent of military health care facilities offer some form of complementary and alternative medicine—in addition to conventional medicine— mainly for pain management and psychological disorders.

Aug 9, 2017
Report

More Than 80% of Military Health Facilities Provide Complementary and Alternative Medicine

In addition to conventional medicine, 83 percent of military health care facilities offer therapies like acupuncture, chiropractic, stress management, yoga, biofeedback, and massage for pain management and psychological disorders.

Aug 9, 2017
Journal Article

Integrative Pain Management Centers in the Military: The Challenges

Integrative medicine might be the appropriate model for pain management in the military; however, the structural and process elements to bring it about are not yet in place or fully understood.

Oct 10, 2016
Essay

Science and the Healing Arts

Americans spend billions of dollars out of pocket seeking relief from chronic conditions in alternative schools of health, such as acupuncture or chiropractic. What would it take to more fully integrate such practices into the mainstream?

Apr 29, 2016
Report

Future evaluation of the Integrated Personal Commissioning programme: Mapping the logic and assessing evaluability

The Integrated Personal Commissioning Programme is a new programme that joins up health and social care funding for individuals with complex needs. This report sets out the support RAND Europe provided for the future evaluation of the programme.

Dec 31, 2015
Journal Article

A Systematic Scoping Review of Complementary and Alternative Medicine Mind and Body Practices to Improve the Health of Veterans and Military Personnel

We conducted a systematic scoping review of mind and body practices used with veterans or active duty military personnel to identify gaps in the literature and make recommendations for future primary research.

Dec 1, 2014
Journal Article

IMPACT - Integrative Medicine Primary Care Trial: Protocol for a Comparative Effectiveness Study of the Clinical and Cost Outcomes of an Integrative Primary Care Clinic Model

This study will use a combination of observational quantitative and qualitative methods to rigorously measure the health and healthcare utilization outcomes of the University of Arizona Integrative Health Center (UAIHC), an IM adult primary care clinic in Phoenix, Arizona.

Jan 1, 2014
Journal Article

Evaluating the Economics of Complementary and Integrative Medicine

If CIM is to be considered in broader healthcare strategies, its economic impact must be determined.

Mar 1, 2013
Journal Article

When a Whole Practice Model Is the Intervention: Developing Fidelity Evaluation Components Using Program Theory-Driven Science for an Integrative Medicine Primary Care Clinic

This paper provides a rationale for the use of practice theory and fidelity evaluation in studies of integrative practices and describes the approach and protocol used in fidelity evaluation of the University of Arizona Integrative Health Center.

Jan 1, 2013
Journal Article

Challenges of Systematic Reviewing Integrative Health Care

The objective of this study was to apply a sensitivity analysis to demonstrate how the results of a systematic review of IM and IHC will differ according to what inclusion criteria is used based on the definition of IM/IHC.

Jan 1, 2013
Journal Article

Economic Analysis of Complementary, Alternative, and Integrative Medicine: Considerations Raised by an Expert Panel

An international panel of experts was convened to examine the challenges faced in conducting economic analyses of Complementary, Alternative and Integrative Medicine CAIM).

Jan 1, 2013

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