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Suggested Citation:"Appendix C: Table 1-1 List of Abbreviations." Institute of Medicine. 2005. Complementary and Alternative Medicine in the United States. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/11182.
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APPENDIX C
Table 1-1 List of Abbreviations

National Institute of Health Institutes, Centers, and Offices

NCI = National Cancer Institute

NHLBI = National Heart Lung and Blood Institute

NIDCR = National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research

NIDDK = National Institute of Diabetes & Digestive & Kidney Diseases

NINDS = National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke

NIAID = National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases

NICHD = National Institute of Child Health and Human Development

NEI = National Eye Institute

NIEHS = National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences

NIA = National Institute on Aging

NIAMS = National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin

NIMH = National Institute of Mental Health

NIDA = National Institute on Drug Abuse

NIAAA = National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism

NINR = National Institute of Nursing Research

NCRR = National Center for Research Resources

NCCAM = National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine

NCMHD = National Center on Minority Health and Health Disparities

FIC = John E. Fogarty International Center

OD = Office of Dietary Supplements

NIH = National Institutes of Health

Suggested Citation:"Appendix C: Table 1-1 List of Abbreviations." Institute of Medicine. 2005. Complementary and Alternative Medicine in the United States. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/11182.
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Integration of complementary and alternative medicine therapies (CAM) with conventional medicine is occurring in hospitals and physicians offices, health maintenance organizations (HMOs) are covering CAM therapies, insurance coverage for CAM is increasing, and integrative medicine centers and clinics are being established, many with close ties to medical schools and teaching hospitals. In determining what care to provide, the goal should be comprehensive care that uses the best scientific evidence available regarding benefits and harm, encourages a focus on healing, recognizes the importance of compassion and caring, emphasizes the centrality of relationship-based care, encourages patients to share in decision making about therapeutic options, and promotes choices in care that can include complementary therapies where appropriate.

Numerous approaches to delivering integrative medicine have evolved. Complementary and Alternative Medicine in the United States identifies an urgent need for health systems research that focuses on identifying the elements of these models, the outcomes of care delivered in these models, and whether these models are cost-effective when compared to conventional practice settings.

It outlines areas of research in convention and CAM therapies, ways of integrating these therapies, development of curriculum that provides further education to health professionals, and an amendment of the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act to improve quality, accurate labeling, research into use of supplements, incentives for privately funded research into their efficacy, and consumer protection against all potential hazards.

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