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Judy Burnham/Dennis Fell - Abstract
2003 
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 Citation
Analysis of Complementary Alternative Medicine in Physical
Therapy.
Judy Burnham, MLS, AHIP - University of South Alabama Biomedical
Library
Dennis Fell - University of South Alabama Department of Physical Therapy
Purpose: This poster will describe a citation analysis
of the literature of physical therapy involving complementary
alternative medicine.
Subjects: Citations of articles on appropriate physical
therapy techniques involving complementary alternative medicine
published 2000-2002 were analyzed to determine the characteristics
of this body of literature.
Brief Description: A search of the MEDLINE database was
conducted articles concerning appropriate physical therapy techniques
and complementary/alternative medicine (CAM) published 2000-2002.
The search was limited to English, human and those articles that
were evidence based. The references appearing at the end of those
articles were analyzed to determine the characteristics of the
literature.
Results: Results of the study will give a description
of the literature of CAM in physical therapy, including the format
of literature cited and the age of the literature cited. The
study will also develop a list of journals important to this
field.
Discussion/Conclusion: The results of this study will
characterize the nature of the literature of this emerging discipline,
including the format, age and major journals. The results can
be used by physical therapy clinicians determine target journals
for publications avenues, by physical therapy researchers looking
for literature in the area of CAM or by librarians who need to
identify core journals in this area for collection development.
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