Abstract
OBJECTIVES: To investigate the effect on patient health status of an outpatient service providing acupuncture, osteopathy, and homeopathy. DESIGN: Pragmatic quasiexperimental design with waiting-list control group. SETTING: A district general hospital in the United Kingdom. SUBJECTS: All patients referred to the service during the study period. OUTCOME MEASURES: The Short Form 36-Item Health Status Survey (SF-36). RESULTS: With the exception of the Physical Functioning scale, statistical differences in scores were found between the treatment and control group on all SF-36 scales. Sensitivity analysis designed to deal with nonresponse supports the robustness of the results. CONCLUSION: This study provides evidence for the effectiveness of an outpatient acupuncture, osteopathy and homeopathy service in terms of benefits to patients' health status.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 315-328 |
Number of pages | 0 |
Journal | J Altern Complement Med |
Volume | 7 |
Issue number | 4 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - Aug 2001 |
Keywords
- Acupuncture
- Adolescent
- Adult
- Aged
- Ambulatory Care
- Analysis of Variance
- Case-Control Studies
- Complementary Therapies
- Delivery of Health Care
- Health Status
- Health Surveys
- Homeopathy
- Hospitals
- General
- Humans
- Middle Aged
- Osteopathic Medicine
- Patient Satisfaction
- Sensitivity and Specificity
- United Kingdom