Anthroposophic medical therapy in chronic disease: a four-year prospective cohort study |
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| Authors: | Harald J Hamre Claudia M Witt Anja Glockmann Renatus Ziegler Stefan N Willich Helmut Kiene |
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| Affiliation: | 1.Institute for Applied Epistemology and Medical Methodology,Freiburg,Germany;2.Institute of Social Medicine, Epidemiology, and Health Economics,Charité University Medical Center,Campus Mitte,Berlin,Germany;3.Society for Cancer Research,Arlesheim,Switzerland |
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| Abstract: | Background The short consultation length in primary care is a source of concern, and the wish for more consultation time is a common reason for patients to seek complementary medicine. Physicians practicing anthroposophic medicine have prolonged consultations with their patients, taking an extended history, addressing constitutional, psychosocial, and biographic aspect of patients' illness, and selecting optimal therapy. In Germany, health benefit programs have included the reimbursement of this additional physician time. The purpose of this study was to describe clinical outcomes in patients with chronic diseases treated by anthroposophic physicians after an initial prolonged consultation. |
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