Understanding Research in Complementary and Alternative Medicine: A Guide to Reading and Analysing Research in Healthcare

This is a clear-sighted introduction to research methodology invaluable to those new to their professions and those new to the need to understand research reports. Providing an incisive anatomy of medical research, an A-Z of terms, and practical analysis of sample research papers, this book seeks to demystify published research papers and demonstrate the benefits to alternative healthcare of an evidence-based approach when testing the efficacy of treatments.