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No improvement in disclosure of natural health product use to primary care medical doctors in the last 15 years: A survey of naturopathic patients
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No improvement in disclosure of natural health product use to primary care medical doctors in the last 15 years: A survey of naturopathic patients

Jeremy Y. Ng, Anna Garber, Michelle Luong, Kieran Cooley and Jason W. Busse
Complementary therapies in clinical practice, Vol.39, pp.1-7
05/2020
PMID: 32379647

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Abstract

Integrative & Complementary Medicine Life Sciences & Biomedicine Science & Technology Complementary and alternative medicine Cross-sectional study Herb-drug interaction Natural health products NHP disclosure Background
The use of natural health products (NHPs) is common in North America. In 2003, we found that 42% of NHP users had not disclosed this information to their primary care medical doctors (MDs). We repeated our survey in 2018/2019 to explore if the rate of NHP use disclosure had improved.

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