Development and classification of an operational definition of complementary and alternative medicine for the Cochrane collaboration.

摘要: During the past decade, Cochrane Collaboration has been an increasingly important source of information on complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) therapies. From 2007 to 2008, CAM Field developed a topics list that allowed us categorize all 396 reviews related (as The Library, Issue 4, 2009). This is advance in making accessible public. In this article, we discuss challenges developing list, including operational efinition CAM, deciding which should be included within Field's scope, structured Field-specific topics, determining where placed. Although aspects our definition are open revision, standardized provides with objective, reproducible, systematic method for defining classifying