Hospital-Based Integrative Medicine

Author

Hilton, Lara ; Rhodes, Hilary J. ; Coulter, Ian D. ; Ellison, Marcia A. ; Ryan, Gery W.

Year

2008

Publisher

RAND Corporation

Type

BOOK

Description

This study tracks the establishment of a single hospital-based integrative medicine center. Although some factors clearly worked in favor of the center, the hospital had few models to guide it and no experience in creating such a clinic. Thus, it made many decisions in the areas of administration, finance, and legal issues that created barriers to the center's success, and the center was ultimately closed.