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Pediatric integrative medicine: pediatrics' newest subspecialty?

BACKGROUND: Integrative medicine is defined as relationship-centered care that focuses on the whole person, is informed by evidence, and makes use of all appropriate therapeutic approaches, healthcare professionals and disciplines to achieve optimal health and healing, including evidence-based compl...

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Autores principales: Vohra, Sunita, Surette, Soleil, Mittra, Deepika, Rosen, Lawrence D, Gardiner, Paula, Kemper, Kathi J
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3470978/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22894682
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2431-12-123
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author Vohra, Sunita
Surette, Soleil
Mittra, Deepika
Rosen, Lawrence D
Gardiner, Paula
Kemper, Kathi J
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Mittra, Deepika
Rosen, Lawrence D
Gardiner, Paula
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description BACKGROUND: Integrative medicine is defined as relationship-centered care that focuses on the whole person, is informed by evidence, and makes use of all appropriate therapeutic approaches, healthcare professionals and disciplines to achieve optimal health and healing, including evidence-based complementary and alternative medicine. Pediatric integrative medicine (PIM) develops and promotes this approach within the field of pediatrics. We conducted a survey to identify and describe PIM programs within academic children’s hospitals across North America. Key barriers and opportunities were identified for the growth and development of academic PIM initiatives in the US and Canada. METHODS: Academic PIM programs were identified by email and eligible for inclusion if they had each of educational, clinical, and research activities. Program directors were interviewed by telephone regarding their clinical, research, educational, and operational aspects. RESULTS: Sixteen programs were included. Most (75%) programs provided both inpatient and outpatient services. Seven programs operated with less than 1 FTE clinical personnel. Credentialing of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) providers varied substantially across the programs and between inpatient and outpatient services. Almost all (94%) programs offered educational opportunities for residents in pediatrics and/or family medicine. One fifth (20%) of the educational programs were mandatory for medical students. Research was conducted in a range of topics, but half of the programs reported lack of research funding and/or time. Thirty-one percent of the programs relied on fee-for-service income. CONCLUSIONS: Pediatric integrative medicine is emerging as a new subspecialty to better help address 21st century patient concerns.
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spelling pubmed-34709782012-10-16 Pediatric integrative medicine: pediatrics' newest subspecialty? Vohra, Sunita Surette, Soleil Mittra, Deepika Rosen, Lawrence D Gardiner, Paula Kemper, Kathi J BMC Pediatr Research Article BACKGROUND: Integrative medicine is defined as relationship-centered care that focuses on the whole person, is informed by evidence, and makes use of all appropriate therapeutic approaches, healthcare professionals and disciplines to achieve optimal health and healing, including evidence-based complementary and alternative medicine. Pediatric integrative medicine (PIM) develops and promotes this approach within the field of pediatrics. We conducted a survey to identify and describe PIM programs within academic children’s hospitals across North America. Key barriers and opportunities were identified for the growth and development of academic PIM initiatives in the US and Canada. METHODS: Academic PIM programs were identified by email and eligible for inclusion if they had each of educational, clinical, and research activities. Program directors were interviewed by telephone regarding their clinical, research, educational, and operational aspects. RESULTS: Sixteen programs were included. Most (75%) programs provided both inpatient and outpatient services. Seven programs operated with less than 1 FTE clinical personnel. Credentialing of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) providers varied substantially across the programs and between inpatient and outpatient services. Almost all (94%) programs offered educational opportunities for residents in pediatrics and/or family medicine. One fifth (20%) of the educational programs were mandatory for medical students. Research was conducted in a range of topics, but half of the programs reported lack of research funding and/or time. Thirty-one percent of the programs relied on fee-for-service income. CONCLUSIONS: Pediatric integrative medicine is emerging as a new subspecialty to better help address 21st century patient concerns. BioMed Central 2012-08-15 /pmc/articles/PMC3470978/ /pubmed/22894682 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2431-12-123 Text en Copyright ©2012 Vohra et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22894682
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