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[Complementary and alternative medicines (CAM): towards an "evidence-based" consensus in the university hospital]
Bertrand Graz1, Doris Schopper
1Institut universitaire de médecine sociale et préventive (IUMSP), CHUV et Université de Lausanne, 1011 Lausanne. bertrand.graz@chuv.ch
Abstract:
While a popular vote supported a new article on complementary and alternative medicines (CAM) in the Swiss Constitution, this assessment in 14 wards of the University Hospital of Lausanne, Switzerland, attempted at answering the question: How can CAM use be better taken into account and patients informed with more rigor and respect for their choices? Confronted with a review of the literature (> 2000 publications in "Evidence-based complementary medicines" since 1998), respondents declared their ignorance of the clinical data presently available on CAM. All were in favour of more teaching and information on the subject, plus an official statement from the Hospital direction, ensuring production and diffusion of rigorous and clinically significant information on CAM.
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