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Referral Patterns Between Allopathic Physicians and Complementary and Alternative Medicine Practitioners: A Followup Study
Hubbard, Molly Khattab, Hany LeComte, Matthew Peet, Lindsay Small, Meghan Win, Khine Zimmerman, Asha Eppstein, Margaret Langevin, Helene Trabulsy, Phil
Hubbard, Molly
Khattab, Hany
LeComte, Matthew
Peet, Lindsay
Small, Meghan
Win, Khine
Zimmerman, Asha
Eppstein, Margaret
Langevin, Helene
Trabulsy, Phil
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Introduction: • Despite the high prevalence of Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) usage, several recent surveys suggest that the vast majority of patient visits to CAM practitioners are self-referred and that communication between conventional and CAM practitioners is limited. • There is a need for a better understandingof factors influencing referral patterns across these two groups of practitioners. • Network analysis provides a useful tool to quantify relationships between members of an interrelated social network. • The goal of this follow up study was to quantify the cross-class referral patterns between conventional and CAM classes of practitioners in Chittenden County Vermont as well as gather additional information on the basis of referrals for future studies. • This study was a preliminary examination of possible reasons for the referral patterns.
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2010-02-24