Health Policy
September 17, 2012 | Feature/Topic
Browse research, insight and analysis on key issues affecting health and health care in the United States.
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Echinacea for Treating the Common Cold
December 21, 2010 | Journal Article
Echinacea is widely used to treat the common cold. The objective of this randomized, controlled study was to assess the potential benefits of echinacea as a treatment of common cold.
Massage Therapy Versus Simple Touch to Improve Pain and Mood in Patients with Advanced Cancer
September 16, 2008 | Journal Article
This study compares the use of massage therapy to relieve pain and other symptoms to simple touch therapy for terminally ill individuals.
Access to Conventional Medical Care and the Use of Complementary and Alternative Medicine
January 1, 2005 | Journal Article
The use of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) in the United States has greatly increased during the past decade. Using survey data from the 2002 National Health interview Survey (NHIS), we show that adults who did not get, or delayed, need ...
Religious Characteristics of U.S. Physicians
July 1, 2005 | Journal Article
The purpose of this study was to describe the religious characteristics of physicians in comparison to the broader United States population. A national probability sample of 2,000 physicians was surveyed using measures of religion and spirituality. ...
Do Religious Physicians Disproportionately Care for the Underserved?
July 1, 2007 | Journal Article
Religious practices and medicine as a calling.
Attention to Inpatients' Religious and Spiritual Concerns
November 1, 2011 | Journal Article
Hospitals may be leaving their patients' religious and spiritual needs unfulfilled despite believing they ought to be more involved, evidence suggests that a low percentage of physicians actually have religious or spiritual discussions with patients.
Prayers in the Clinic
December 1, 2009 | Journal Article
This article presents qualitative findings from the first study of how physicians respond when patients raise the issue of prayer. The study recruited pediatric physicians from thirteen hospitals on U.S. News and World Report?s ?honor roll.?
When Patients Choose Faith Over Medicine
January 10, 2005 | Journal Article
How physicians interpret and respond to medical conflicts that involve religion was the focus of the current investigation. Individual, semi-structured interviews were conducted with 21 physicians across a number of religious affiliations and the si ...
Following the Call
November 1, 2006 | Journal Article
The recruitment and retention of well-trained, motivated health care providers in underserved communities is a longstanding problem that has led researchers and policy-makers to study providers' motivations for work among the underserved. This study ...