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.

基于证据的补充和替代医学（CAM）越来越多地被使用，并被认为对许多美国人的健康很重要，但它在临终关怀以及服务不足和少数民族人口中的利用率却远远不足。拟议会议的目的是将临终关怀，CAM和医疗保健差异方面的专家聚集在一起：1）全面评估CAM方法如何完全纳入传统的临终关怀; 2）提出有效的方法为服务不足和少数群体提供这些服务，3）制定临床研究的研究议程。关于CAM，临终关怀和健康差距的会议目标是：1）确定当前CAM的利用和实践在传统的临终关怀。2)查明服务不足/少数民族人口中的差距，并提出消除差距的步骤。3)介绍并评估目前关于CAM干预措施安全性和有效性的研究。4)确定适用于评估CAM干预措施有效性的结局指标。5)检查使用CAM改善姑息治疗和临终关怀患者生活质量的证据。6)强调将CAM纳入临终关怀的法律的、后勤和专业障碍。7)建立一个议程，指导未来对当前和新型CAM方法进行临终关怀的研究，并在全国范围内向相关医疗保健和研究机构传播。8)确定资源和战略，以快速实施到传统的临终关怀CAM方法，证明是有效的适当设计，仔细控制的临床研究。组委会成员来自著名机构，包括亨利福特卫生系统，密歇根大学，韦恩州立大学，奥克兰大学和东密歇根大学。该委员会在临终关怀和CAM以及医疗保健差异方面拥有临床研究专业知识。组织者的总体目标是举办前几次大型年度会议（预计今年将有300名与会者），提高全国对创造最有效和最富有同情心的综合临终关怀的重要性的认识。这种综合护理将传统医学的最佳实践与那些被证明有效的CAM疗法相结合。随着综合医学的建立，传统护理和CAM之间的医学将没有区别，最好的干预措施将使所有人在生命结束时都能享有尊严与和平。