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No obligation to report adverse effects in British complementary and alternative medicine: evidence for double standards

No obligation to report adverse effects in British complementary and alternative medicine: evidence for double standards
No obligation to report adverse effects in British complementary and alternative medicine: evidence for double standards
There is increasing emphasis on adverse effect reporting in healthcare,1 yet this ethos does not extend to complementary and alternative medicine (CAM). Although there is a common belief that CAM is devoid of risk, the innumerable published case reports of adverse effects from most CAMs suggest that this is not the case.2–5

To investigate whether CAM professional bodies oblige their members to report adverse effects, we examined the codes of conduct by which CAM practitioners are bound.
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Hunt, Katherine J.
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Ernst, E.
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Hunt, Katherine J.
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Ernst, E.
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Hunt, Katherine J. and Ernst, E. (2010) No obligation to report adverse effects in British complementary and alternative medicine: evidence for double standards. Quality & Safety in Healthcare, 19 (1), 79-80. (doi:10.1136/qshc.2009.033134). (PMID:20172889)

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There is increasing emphasis on adverse effect reporting in healthcare,1 yet this ethos does not extend to complementary and alternative medicine (CAM). Although there is a common belief that CAM is devoid of risk, the innumerable published case reports of adverse effects from most CAMs suggest that this is not the case.2–5

To investigate whether CAM professional bodies oblige their members to report adverse effects, we examined the codes of conduct by which CAM practitioners are bound.

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Published date: 2010
Organisations: Faculty of Health Sciences

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Local EPrints ID: 156601
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/156601
PURE UUID: 9e3a45ec-3517-4ff4-8568-300c361246d3
ORCID for Katherine J. Hunt: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-6173-7319

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Date deposited: 01 Jun 2010 12:17
Last modified: 25 Jun 2024 01:43

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