Clinical Research in Complementary Therapies

George Thomas Lewith

Description

The use of complementary therapies is exploding, increasing the pressure to establish a rigorous science to support its practice. Clinical Research in Complementary Therapies: Principles, Problems and Solutions provides students with the tools they need to research complementary and integrative medicine (CIM) and so fill this gap. Essential for both undergraduate and postgraduate students, this second edition is significantly updated and enhanced.

Part 1 deals with research strategies and methods, explaining the major types of clinical research in CIM and how these inter-relate. New chapters are included on whole systems research, qualitative research and questionnaire development. Not all therapies can be treated the same way nor channeled through the signal process of randomized controlled trials. Therefore, detailed description of mixed methods approaches including observational, qualitative, cost-benefit and comparative effectiveness research are described. Part 2 deals with specific complementary therapies and how they are invested by experts in each field.

The book analyses the key questions asked and the controversies debated in complementary medicine research and offers clear and innovative guidance for answering these questions.

FEATURES

• Provides an overarching synthesis of methods in CIM and how they are to be used collectively including the role of comparative effectiveness research• Suggests both general and specific factors which need to be considered in assessing or planning complementary therapy research • Pinpoints aspects of research which are different in orthodox research and complementary therapy research • Reviews the types of research carried out in specific complementary therapies and analyses issues which arise • Includes information on measuring the economic cost and benefits of complementary medicine, clinical audit and the role of placebos use • Builds upon recent research results, looks at the lessons these provide for all complementary therapies and suggests key issues to address in future research.

• Provides an overarching synthesis of methods in CIM and how they are to be used collectively including the role of comparative effectiveness research• Suggests both general and specific factors which need to be considered in assessing or planning complementary therapy research • Pinpoints aspects of research which are different in orthodox research and complementary therapy research • Reviews the types of research carried out in specific complementary therapies and analyses issues which arise • Includes information on measuring the economic cost and benefits of complementary medicine, clinical audit and the role of placebos use • Builds upon recent research results, looks at the lessons these provide for all complementary therapies and suggests key issues to address in future research.

Sujets

• Complementary Medicine
• Alternative Medicine
• Medical

Informations

• Publié par: Churchill Livingstone
• Date de parution: 23 novembre 2010
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9780702049163
• Langue: English

Extrait

Table of Contents

Cover image
Front matter
Copyright
Contributors
Foreword
Preface
1. Toward standards of evidence for CAM research and practice
2. Qualitative research methods
3. The role of outcomes and observational research in evaluating integrative medicine
4. Laboratory research and biomarkers
5. Randomized controlled trials
6. Systematic reviews and meta-analyses in CAM
7. Health services research as a form of evidence and CAM
8. Research in herbal medicine
9. Scientific research in homeopathy
10. Massage therapy research methods
11. Acupuncture
12. Research methodology for studies of prayer and distant healing
13. Manipulation
14. Mind–body medicine approaches
15. Inspiration and perspiration
16. Placebo, meaning and context issues in research
17. Innovative designs and analyses
18. Questionnaires – development, validation, usage
19. Economic evaluation
20. Evidence-based practice
Index
Front matter
CLINICAL RESEARCH in COMPLEMENTARY THERAPIES
Commissioning Editor: Claire Wilson
Development Editor: Natalie Meylan, Louisa Welch
Project Manager: Sruthi Viswam
Designer: Kirsteen Wright
Illustration Manager: Merlyn Harvey
Illustrator: Ethan Danielson

Clinical research in complementary therapies
PRINCIPLES, PROBLEMS AND SOLUTIONS
SECOND EDITION
Edited by
George T. Lewith MA DM FRCP MRCGP, Professor of Health Research, Complementary and Integrated Medicine Research Unit, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK
Wayne B. Jonas MD, President and CEO, Samueli Institute; Professor of Family Medicine, Georgetown University, Alexandria, VA, USA
Harald Walach Dip Psych PhD, Professor, European University Viadrina, Institute for Transcultural Health Studies & Samueli Institute, European Office, Frankfurt, Germany
Foreword by
Harold Sox MD MACP
Copyright

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First edition 2002
Second edition 2011
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Notices

Knowledge and best practice in this field are constantly changing. As new research and experience broaden our understanding, changes in research methods, professional practices, or medical treatment may become necessary.
Practitioners and researchers must always rely on their own experience and knowledge in evaluating and using any information, methods, compounds, or experiments described herein. In using such information or methods they should be mindful of their own safety and the safety of others, including parties for whom they have a professional responsibility.
With respect to any drug or pharmaceutical products identified, readers are advised to check the most current information provided (i) on procedures featured or (ii) by the manufacturer of each product to be administered, to verify the recommended dose or formula, the method and duration of administration, and contraindications. It is the responsibility of practitioners, relying on their own experience and knowledge of their patients, to make diagnoses, to determine dosages and the best treatment for each individual patient, and to take all appropriate safety precautions.
To the fullest extent of the law, neither the Publisher nor the authors, contributors, or editors assume any liability for any injury and/or damage to persons or property as a matter of products liability, negligence or otherwise, or from any use or operation of any methods, products, instructions, or ideas contained in the material herein.


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Contributors
Mones Abu-Asab, PhD

Senior Research Biologist, Laboratory of Pathology, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
Mikel Aickin, PhD

Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA
Hakima Amri, PhD

Assistant Professor, Director of the Complementary and Alternative Medicine Master's of Science Program in Physiology, Department of Physiology & Biophysics, Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, DC, USA
Enrique Auba, MD PhD

Department of Psychiatry and Medical Psychology, Clinica Universidad de Navarra, Pamplona, Navarra, Spain
William ‘Mac’ Beckner, MIS

Vice President, Operations and Technology, Samueli Institute, Alexandria, VA, USA
Herbert Benson, MD

Benson-Henry Institute for Mind Body Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
Heather S. Boon, BScPhM PhD

Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
John Brazier, BA MSc PhD

Professor of Health Economics, The University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK
Alan Breen, DC PhD

Anglo-European College of Chiropractic, Bournemouth, UK
Ian D. Coulter, PhD

RAND/Samueli Chair for Integrative Medicine, RAND Corporation, Santa Monica
Professor, School of Dentistry, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Jeffery A. Dusek, PhD

Director of Research, Penny George Institute for Health and Healing at Abbott Northwestern Hospital, Minneapolis, MN, USA
Elisabetta Fenu, MSc

National Clinical Guideline Centre, Royal College of Physicians, London, UK
Tiffany Field

Director, Touch Research Institute, University of Miami Medical School and Fielding Graduate University, Miami, Florida, USA
Peter Fisher, MD

Clinical Director, Royal London Homoeopathic Hospital, London, UK
Gregory L. Fricchione, MD

Benson-Henry Institute for Mind Body Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
John Gabbay, MB ChB MSc FFPH

Emeritus Professor, University of Southampton, Lymington, UK
Corina Güthlin, PhD

Institute for General Practice, Johann-Wolfgang Goethe-University, Frankfurt, Germany
William Harlan, MD

Retired, National Institutes of Health, Chevy Chase, MD, USA
Pedro Huertas, MD PhD

Benson-Henry Institute for Mind Body Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
John A. Ives, PhD

Director, Brain, Mind & Healing, Samueli Institute, Alexandria, VA, USA
Wayne B. Jonas, MD

Samueli Institute, Alexandria, VA, USA
Raheleh Khorsan, MA

Research Associate, Military Medical Research and Integrative Medicine, Samueli Institute, Corona del Mar, CA, USA
Niko Kohls, PhD

Samueli Scholar, Generation Research Program, Human Science Center, University of Munich & Peter-Schilffarth Institute, Bad Tolz, Germany
Samueli Institute, Washington, USA
Andrée le May, BSc Hons PhD RGN PGCE(A)

Retired Professor of Nursing University of Southampton, Lymington, UK
George T. Lewith, MA DM FRCP MRCGP

Complementary and Integrated Medicine Research Unit, University of Southampton, UK
Klaus Linde, MD

Institute of General Practice, Technische Universität München, München, Germany
Robert T. Mathie, BSc (Hons) PhD

Research Development Adviser, British Homeopathic Association, Luton, UK
Simon Y. Mills, MA FNIMH MCPP

Project Lead, Integrated Self Care in Family Practice, Culm Valley Integrated Centre for Health, Cullompton, UK
Anne Morgan

Health Services Research, Walkley, Sheffield, UK
Elisabeth Targ, MD †

Director, Complementary Medical Research Institute, California Pacific Medical Center, San Francisco, CA, USA
†Deceased
Lene Vase, PhD

Department of Psychology, Aarhus University, Denmark
Marja J. Verhoef, MSc PhD

Department of Community Health Sciences, University of Calgary, AB, Canada
Andrew J. Vickers, DPhil

Associate Attending Research Methodologist, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA
Harald Walach, Dip Psych PhD

Professor, European University Viadrina Institute for Transcultural Health Studies & Samueli Institute, European Office Germany
Adrian White, MA MD BM BCh DRCOG DipMedAc

Clinical Research Fellow, Peninsula Medical School, Plymouth, UK
Claudia M. Witt, MD MBA

Vice Director, Institute for Social Medicine, Epidemiology and Health Economics, Charité University Medical Center Berlin, Germany
David Wonderling, MSc

National Clinical Guideline Centre, Royal College of Physicians, London, UK
Albert Yeung, MD ScD

Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
Foreword
Harold C. Sox, MD, MACP

Professor of Medicine and of the Dartmouth Institute (emeritus, active), Dartmouth Medical School, UK
As I see it, the name “complementary