See also:
CME Accreditation, Complementary and Alternative Practice Activities
Core Principles for End-of-Life Care
Complementary Practice
The AAFP is an advocate of patient access to quality health care and effective education and counseling of patients and consumers. The AAFP recognizes the availability in the market place of complementary and alternative practice and its approaches to healthcare.
The AAFP advocates the evaluation of these alternative treatments and complementary practice through various means including evidenced-based outcomes research as to their efficacy and effectiveness.
To this end, the AAFP believes that physicians can best serve their patients by recognizing and acknowledging the availability of such alternatives and by educating themselves concerning these non-traditional methods of healing in order to facilitate appropriate education, treatment and counseling of patients and consumers.
All clinical information regarding complementary or alternative practice presented or sponsored by the AAFP should include a discussion of the evidence on which it is based. (1997) (2003)
The AAFP advocates the evaluation of these alternative treatments and complementary practice through various means including evidenced-based outcomes research as to their efficacy and effectiveness.
To this end, the AAFP believes that physicians can best serve their patients by recognizing and acknowledging the availability of such alternatives and by educating themselves concerning these non-traditional methods of healing in order to facilitate appropriate education, treatment and counseling of patients and consumers.
All clinical information regarding complementary or alternative practice presented or sponsored by the AAFP should include a discussion of the evidence on which it is based. (1997) (2003)
