Newsgroup: it.discussioni.misteri
Titolo: Complementary Medicine - Ricerche e studi

Passaggio 1) :
"Institute for Complementary Medicine KIKOM, University of Bern, 
Switzerland. 
florenc...@kikom.unibe.ch
The increasing use and practice of complementary and alternative medicine 
(CAM) all over the world raises important ethical issues for health care 
providers, researchers and policy-makers. This article addresses the equity 
issues arising in the context of an evaluation of five complementary 
therapies provided by general practitioners: homeopathy, anthroposophic 
medicine, traditional Chinese medicine, neural therapy and phytotherapy. The 
evaluation was commissioned by the Swiss government in order to provide 
scientific data to make a policy decision about including these disciplines 
in basic insurance coverage, if provided by physicians. Both the research 
process and the related health policy raise a number of equity issues that 
are explored and further discussed on the basis of Daniels' and Sabin's 
criteria for fair decision-making as defined in their 'accountability for 
reasonableness' approach. Combining the lessons learnt from the case study 
with current approaches to fairness in decision-making and priority-setting, 
propositions are made in order to increase awareness for transparency and 
fairness in CAM-related evaluations and policy."
Passaggio 2):
"Institute for Complementary Medicine KIKOM, Inselspital, Bern, Switzerland. 
florenc...@kikom.unibe.ch
BACKGROUND: This project is part of an evaluation of complementary and 
alternative medicine (CAM) aimed at providing a scientific basis for the 
Swiss Government to include 5 CAM methods in basic health coverage: 
anthroposophic medicine, homeopathy, neural therapy, phytotherapy and 
Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM). OBJECTIVES: The objective was to explore 
the philosophy of care (convictions and values, priorities in medical 
activity, motivation for CAM, criteria for the practice of CAM, limits of 
the used methods) of conventional and CAM general practitioners (GPs) and to 
determine differences between both groups. MATERIALS AND METHODS: This study 
was a cross-sectional survey of a representative sample of 623 GPs who 
provide complementary or conventional primary care. A mailed questionnaire 
with open-ended questions focusing on the philosophy of care was used for 
data collection. An appropriate methodology using a combination of 
quantitative and qualitative approaches was developed. RESULTS: Significant 
differences between both groups include philosophy of care (holistic versus 
positivistic approaches), motivation for CAM (intrinsic versus extrinsic) 
and priorities in medical activity. Both groups seem to be aware of 
limitations of the therapeutic methods used. The study reveals that 
conventional physicians are also using complementary medicine. DISCUSSION: 
Our study provides a wealth of data documenting several aspects of 
physicians' philosophy of care as well as differences and similarities 
between conventional and complementary care. Implications of the study with 
regard to quality of care as well as ethical and health policy issues should 
be investigated further."
Ritengo questo passaggio finale particolarmente significativo: "Implications 
of the study with regard to quality of care as well as ethical and health 
policy issues should be investigated further."
E' stato fatto un lavoro del genere? Domanda a sè stante? "Lancet" detta 
legge?...
Antonio Bruno
E` triste che la linea che fu di Galileo, Keplero,
Copernico, Einstein, si
sia ridotta oggi ai
Polidoro e Hack
(un utente di Usenet)

E' stato fatto un lavoro del genere?
Purtroppo ancora no - cosi' qualunque specie di ciarlatano puo' mettere
il cartello "Consulente in Medicine Naturali" ed offrire servizi, senza
restar li' a considerare "quality of care as well as ethical and health
policy issues", per citare un documento che forse conosci.
Certo - quando si comincera' a mettere dei paletti legali relativamente
a "quality of care" e "ethical and health policy issues", ci sara' - di
sicuro - molta meno trippa per gatti.
Comunque, sono d'accordo sul fatto che i naturopati onesti e sinceri di
cui e' pieno il mondo non possano che dare il benvenuto ad una radicale
sistematizzazione, regolamentazione e sorveglianza del settore, in nome
dell'interesse supremo per il malato :-D
Leonardo
-- 
The stars have not dealt me the worst they could do:
My pleasures are plenty - my troubles are two.
But oh!, my two troubles, they reave me of rest:

 Passaggio 1) :
Regarding Homeopathy:
The YouTube presentation by Dr. Bell
is quite good.
 List of articles
on Homeopathy, Homeopathic Research
and Debate on Homeopathy:
http://nationalcenterforhomeopathy.org/articles/introductory.jsp
National Institue of Health government
web site on Homeopathy:
http://nccam.nih.gov/health/homeopathy/#a1
Brilliant presentation by Dr. Iris Bell M.D. PhD
in support of Homeopathy and confirming
the accuracy and efficacy of recent reaearch:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=wYO6nNQGe1M
A full list of PEER REVIEWED papers supporting her research
can be found at:
http://nationalcenterforhomeopathy.org/articles/view,173
(shock! they're not all Homeopathy journals!)
Homeopathic Treatment for Epidemics and Trauma
http://nationalcenterforhomeopathy.org/services/crises/general_info.jsp
Citizen Jimserac