Conference on Complementary and Alternative Medicine

补充和替代医学会议

• 批准号: 7095601
• 负责人: ROBERT A LEVINE
• 金额: $ 2.5万
• 依托单位: HENRY FORD HEALTH SYSTEM
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2005
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2005-09-30 至 2006-09-29
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7095601
• 关键词: alternative medicine; meeting /conference /symposium; terminal patient care

Evidence-based complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) is being increasingly used and considered important for the health of many Americans, yet it is vastly underutilized for end-of-life care and for underserved and minority populations. The purpose of the proposed conference is to bring together experts in end-of-life care, CAM, and healthcare disparities to: 1) comprehensively evaluate how CAM approaches can be incorporated fully into conventional end-of-life care; 2) propose effective approaches for delivering these services to underserved and minority populations, and 3) develop a research agenda for clinical studies. The conference objectives regarding CAM, end-of-life care, and health disparities are to: 1) Identify current CAM utilization and practice in conventional end-of-life care. 2) Identify disparities in underserved/minority populations and propose steps to eliminate disparities. 3) Present and evaluate current research on the safety and efficacy of CAM interventions. 4) Identify outcome measures suitable for assessing the effectiveness of CAM interventions. 5) Examine evidence for improving quality of life for palliative care and hospice patients utilizing CAM. 6) Highlight the legal, logistical and professional barriers to incorporating CAM in end-of-life care. 7) Establish an agenda for guiding future research on current and novel CAM approaches for end-of-life care and disseminate this nationally to relevant healthcare and research institutions. 8) Identify resources and strategies for rapidly implementing into conventional end-of-life care CAM approaches proven to be effective by appropriately designed, carefully controlled clinical studies. Members of the organizing committee are from notable institutions including Henry Ford Health System, University of Michigan, Wayne State University, Oakland University, and Eastern Michigan University. The committee has clinical research expertise in end-of-life care and CAM, as well as in healthcare disparities. The overall goal of the organizers is to hold the first several large annual conferences (300 attendees expected this year) that will raise national awareness for the importance of creating the most effective and compassionate integrative end-of-life care. This integrative care will incorporate the best practices of conventional medicine with those CAM therapies that are proven effective. As integrative medicine is created, there will be no distinction in medicine between conventional care and CAM, and the best available interventions will allow for dignity and peace for all people at the end of life.

基于证据的互补和替代医学（CAM）正在日益使用，并认为对许多美国人的健康很重要，但是对于寿命末护理以及服务不足和服务不足和少数群体的人口而言，它的利用率很高。拟议的会议的目的是将临终关怀，CAM和医疗保健差异方面的专家汇集到：1）全面评估如何将CAM方法充分纳入传统的临终关怀； 2）提出了将这些服务提供给服务不足和少数族裔人群的有效方法，3）为临床研究制定研究议程。有关CAM，临终护理和健康差异的会议目标是：1）确定当前的CAM利用率和实践在常规寿命终止护理中。 2）确定服务不足/少数族裔人口的差异，并提出消除差异的步骤。 3）介绍并评估有关CAM干预措施的安全性和功效的当前研究。 4）确定适合评估CAM干预有效性的结果度量。 5）检查使用CAM的姑息治疗和临终关怀患者改善生活质量的证据。 6）强调将CAM纳入临终护理中的法律，后勤和专业障碍。 7）建立一个议程，以指导对当前和新型CAM方法的未来研究，以实现临终关怀，并在全国范围内将其传播到相关的医疗保健和研究机构。 8）确定通过适当设计，精心控制的临床研究证明有效的传统寿命护理凸轮方法的资源和策略。组织委员会的成员来自亨利·福特卫生系统，密歇根大学，韦恩州立大学，奥克兰大学和密歇根大学的著名机构。该委员会在临终护理和CAM以及医疗保健差异方面具有临床研究专业知识。组织者的总体目标是举行前几次大型年度会议（今年预计今年300名参与者），这将提高国家意识到创建最有效，最有同情心的综合生活终止护理的重要性。这种综合护理将将常规医学的最佳实践与被证明有效的CAM疗法结合在一起。由于创建了综合医学，常规护理和CAM之间的医学将没有区别，最好的干预措施将允许在生命结束时为所有人提供尊严与和平。