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April 2003, Vol 93, No. 4 | American Journal of Public Health 549-552
© 2003 American Public Health Association

FIELD ACTION REPORT

An Integrative Medicine Clinic in a Community Hospital

Larry Scherwitz, PhD, William Stewart, MD, Pamela McHenry, CHT, Claudia Wood, MA, CMT, Lailah Robertson, BA and Michael Cantwell, MD, MPH

The authors are with the Institute for Health and Healing, California Pacific Medical Center, San Francisco, Calif.

Correspondence: Requests for reprints should be sent to Larry Scherwitz, PhD, Institute for Health and Healing, California Pacific Medical Center, 2395 Sacramento St, 3rd Floor, San Francisco, CA 941125 (e-mail: larrys{at}cooper.cpmc.org).

We report on the creation of an integrative medicine clinic within the setting of a medical research and tertiary care hospital.

The clinical audit used a prospective case series of 160 new patients who were followed by telephone interviews over a 6-month period. Patients’ demographic characteristics, presenting symptoms and diagnoses, physician treatment recommendations, extent of understanding and adherence to treatment recommendations, changes in symptom intensity, and progress toward achieving health objectives were recorded. Patients at the clinic showed significant reductions in the severity of symptoms and made significant progress toward achieving their health objectives at the 6-month follow-up.

Thus far, the clinic’s experience suggests that an integrative medicine clinic can face current health care financial challenges and thrive in a conventional medical center.






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