Table 3 Key themes and categories
From: The role of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) in Germany – A focus group study of GPs
Key themes | Categories |
|---|---|
role of CAM within healthcare system | • integration of CAM |
• CAM in SHI | |
• modernisation law (GMG 2004) | |
• individual healthcare services (IHS) | |
• 'Heilpraktiker' | |
quality | • difficulties of quality control |
• quality criteria | |
• standards/guidelines | |
• quality control as instrument for rationalisation | |
education | • CAM should be included in undergraduate education |
• Parallel continued medical education in CAM and conventional medicine | |
• quality of courses needs improvement | |
• standardised formats | |
research | • individual approach of CAM |
• research methodology | |
• relevance for practice |