PMID- 21645469
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20110823
LR  - 20110607
IS  - 1448-7527 (Print)
IS  - 1448-7527 (Linking)
VI  - 17
IP  - 2
DP  - 2011
TI  - Integration of complementary and alternative medicine information and advice in 
      chronic disease management guidelines.
PG  - 142-9
LID - 10.1071/PY10013 [doi]
AB  - The growing evidence on the benefits and risks of complementary and alternative 
      medicine (CAM) and its high rate of use (69% of Australians) - particularly for 
      chronic or recurrent conditions - means increasing attention on CAM. However, few 
      people disclose CAM use to their GP, and health professionals tend to 
      inadequately discuss CAM-related issues with their patients, partly due to 
      insufficient knowledge. As clinical and non-clinical chronic condition management 
      guidelines are a means to educate primary health care practitioners, we undertook 
      a content analysis of guidelines relevant to two common chronic conditions - 
      cardiovascular disease (CVD) and type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) - to assess 
      their provision of CAM-related information. Ten current Australian guidelines 
      were reviewed, revealing scant CAM content. When available, the CAM-relevant 
      information was brief, in some cases unclear, inconclusive and lacking in 
      direction to the GP or health care provider. Although we focus on CVD and T2DM, 
      we argue the value of all chronic condition management guidelines integrating 
      relevant evidence-informed information and advice on CAM risks, benefits and 
      referrals, to increase GP awareness and knowledge of appropriate CAM therapies, 
      and potentially to facilitate doctor-client discussion about CAM.
FAU - Team, Victoria
AU  - Team V
AD  - School of Psychology and Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health 
      Sciences, Monash University, 900 Dandenong Road, Caulfield East, Vic. 3145, 
      Australia. victoria.team@monash.edu
FAU - Canaway, Rachel
AU  - Canaway R
FAU - Manderson, Lenore
AU  - Manderson L
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PT  - Review
PL  - Australia
TA  - Aust J Prim Health
JT  - Australian journal of primary health
JID - 101123037
SB  - IM
MH  - Australia
MH  - Cardiovascular Diseases/*therapy
MH  - Chronic Disease
MH  - Complementary Therapies/*methods
MH  - Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2/*therapy
MH  - *Disease Management
MH  - Health Communication/*methods
MH  - Humans
MH  - *Practice Guidelines as Topic
EDAT- 2011/06/08 06:00
MHDA- 2011/08/24 06:00
CRDT- 2011/06/08 06:00
PHST- 2010/05/07 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2010/12/09 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2011/06/08 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2011/06/08 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2011/08/24 06:00 [medline]
AID - PY10013 [pii]
AID - 10.1071/PY10013 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Aust J Prim Health. 2011;17(2):142-9. doi: 10.1071/PY10013.