Table 4 Categories and codes for the key theme 'Role of CAM within healthcare system'

integration of CAM

• integration as continuum

• evidence as criterion for integration

• patient as criterion for integration

• role of CAM in ‚preventive medicine’

CAM in SHI

• CAM within the catalogue of benefits of SHI?

• insufficient remuneration for ‚time’/narrative-based medicine in the present healthcare system

• reduction of overall healthcare costs by CAM

• lack of linkage among existing offers

modernisation law (GMG 2004)

• negative consequences for physicians

• negative consequences for patients

• positive consequences

Individual Health Services (IHS)

• risks of IHS

• commercial role of GP endangers doctor-patient relationship

• transparent communication about IHS

• advantages of IHS

'Heilpraktiker'

• see Figure 1 and Figure 2 for codes