’They Don’t Ask Me So I Don’t Tell Them’: Patient-Clinician Communication About Traditional, Complementary, and Alternative Medicine

摘要

PURPOSE Although high rates of traditional medicine and complementary and alternative medicine (TM/CAM) use have been well documented, there has been less attention to the factors influencing communication between patients and their primary care clinicians about TM/CAM. Such communication can be important in anticipating possible drug-herb interactions and in assuring agreement about therapeutic plans.