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Key Publications for Whole Systems Research

WSR Publications for Use in Application Process

Aickin, Mikel, PhD, Participant-Centered Analysis in Complementary and Alternative Medicine Comparative Trials, The Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine, 9 (6), 2003, pp 949-957

Aickin, Mikel, PhD, Separation Tests for Early-Phase Complementary and Alternative Medicine Comparative Trials, Evidence-Based Integrative Medicine 2004; pp 225-231

Iris R. Bell; Opher Caspi; Gary E. R. Schwartz; Kathryn L. Grant; Tracy W. Gaudet; David Rychener; Victoria Maizes; Andrew Weil. Integrative Medicine and Systemic Outcomes Research: Issues in the Emergence of a New Model for Primary Health Care Arch Intern Med 2002;162: 133-140.

Iris R. Bell and Mary Koithan; Models for the Study of Whole Systems, Integrative Cancer Therapies 2006; 5(4); pp 293-307.

Vinjar Fonnebo, Sameline Grimsgaard, Harald Walach, Cheryl Ritenbaugh, Arne Johan Norheim, Hugh MacPherson et al. Researching complementary and alternative treatments - the gatekeepers are not at home, BMC Medical Research Methodology 2007, 7:7. http://www.biomedcentral.com

Bernard Barber, Resistance by Scientists to Scientific Discovery, Science, New Series, 134 (3479) 1961: 596-602. http//links.jstor.org

Cheryl Ritenbaugh, Marja Verhoef, Susan Fleischman, Heather Boon, Ann Leis. Whole Systems Research: A Discipline for Studying Complementary and Alternative Medicine, Alternative Therapies 2003, 9(4). 32-26

Dennis C Turk, The potential of Treatment Matching for Subgroups of Patients with Chronic pain: Lumping vs. Splitting. Clinh J Pain, 21(1) 2003.

Marja Verhoef, Ann Casebeer, and Robert Hilsden. Assessing Efficacy of Complementary medicine: Adding Qualitative Research Methods to the "Gold Standard", The Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine, 8(3), 2002, pp 275-281.

Marja Verhoef, George Lewith, Cheryl Ritenbaugh, Heather Boon, Susan Fleishman, Anne Leis. Complementary and alternative medicine whole systems research: Beyond identification of inadequacies of the RCT, Complementary Therapies in Medicine 2005, 13, pp 206-212. www.elsevierhealth.com/journals/ctim