Complementary/Alternative Medicine & Preventive Health Care (ÎWellnessÌ) Guidelines 2007

Complementary/Alternative Medicine & Preventive Health Care (ÎWellnessÌ) Guidelines 2007
Apollo Managed Care Consultants, March 2007, Pages: 250
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Description
A toolbox of general information, guidelines and benefit interpretation for the effective clinical and resource management of alternative medicine and preventive health care services. Includes alternative medicine clinical review criteria guidelines, resources, references, web sites ++ preventive health care ('Wellness') guidelines listed by age & sex and the Prevention of coronary artery disease & stroke guideline - all with resources and references. Updated Annually.

Our Îsingle topicsÌ provide the tools needed for a cost-effective, evidence-based strategy to increase the efficiency and quality of care management. Each is supported by current references from the peer-reviewed medical literature and other authoritative resources.

Table of Contents
Preface ii
Table of Contents vii
Complementary Alternative Medicine Introduction 1
Licensure and credentialing of CAM practitioners (update 3-05) 2
Demand for alternative medicine therapy 3
Health plan coverage, general (update 7-06, 2-07) 3
Acupuncture/Acupressure (updates 4-04, 11-04, 1-05, 4-05, 3-06, 9-06, 2-07) 4
Applied Kinesiology (New 3-05) 7
Aromatherapy (added 3-01) 7
Ayurvedic medicine (update 10-05) 7
Biofeedback (updated and revised 05-02, 2-05) 8
Magnet and Bioelectromagnetic therapy (update 05-02, 2-05) 10
Chiropractic services 10
Diet and nutrition 11
Guided imagery 12
Herbal medicine/Nutritional supplements (updated10-04) 13
Treatment of menopausal symptoms with herbal products (update 7-06) 13
Depression therapy with herbal products (New 3-05) 14
Common herbal and other CAM products with putative therapeutic claims Ò table (update 2-05, 2-06) 15
Weight loss CAM 19
Green tea for weight loss (New 1-05) 20
Breast cancer prevention using green tea and soy products (New 6-05) 21
Operation Cure All, Coverage issues for herbal products (Updated 09-03, 1-05) 21
Homeopathy (update 10-04, 2-07) 22
Hypnosis (added 11-01, update 03-03, 3-05) 22
Manual/massage therapies (update 9-04) 23
Meditation/Mindfulness, Transcendental meditation (added 4-02, update 3-06, 3-07) 24
Naturopathy 24
Reiki (New 12-05) 24
Relaxation therapy 25
Yoga (New 6-06) 25
CAM Cancer Therapies (added 12-02) 25
Resources for CAM 26
References/suggested reading, general and by topic - CAM 27
Organizations related to CAM 66
Web sites related to Complementary and Alternative Medicine 68
CAM Notes 81
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TOC
Section II
Preventive Health Care (ÎWellnessÌ) Guidelines by Age and Sex Ò table of contents starts on 2nd page of guideline.
Section III
CAD and Stroke Prevention Ò table of contents starts on 2nd page of guideline.
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