Regulation of integrative and complementary medicine Student: Eva Škulková Tutor: PharmDr. Jitka Pokladníková, Ph.D. Dept. of Social and Clinical Pharmacy, Faculty of Pharmacy in Hradec Králové, Charles University, the Czech Republic Background: The prevalence of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) is high 76% and it is rising. In the Czech Republic, there are no legislation or general standards that would ensure uniform requirements for providing CAM. At present, there is a lack of comprehensive understanding of how CAM methods are provided. Aim: To determine the level of regulation of the most commonly used CAM methods in the Czech Republic. Methods: The level of regulation has been evaluated according to regulatory criteria based on requirements for healthcare professionals. The list of the researched methods is based on foreign studies and at the same time specific CAM methods for the Czech Republic were added. Specific methods were selected by the expert group. The data was obtained by searching the Internet using The Google. The obtained data was processed in MS Excel using descriptive statistics. Results: Altogether, 98 CAM methods were searched. Of these, 28 methods were excluded from the evaluation, 70 methods were evaluated according to the criteria, and 2 methods were double...
Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:nusl.cz/oai:invenio.nusl.cz:356026 |
Date | January 2017 |
Creators | Škulková, Eva |
Contributors | Pokladníková, Jitka, Marešová, Helena |
Source Sets | Czech ETDs |
Language | Czech |
Detected Language | English |
Type | info:eu-repo/semantics/masterThesis |
Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess |
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