Health beliefs, treatment preferences and complementary and alternative medicine for asthma, smoking and lung cancer self-management in diverse Black communities
Patient Education and Counselling, 06/14/2012
George M – When patients’ unconventional beliefs and preferences are not identified and discussed, there is an increased risk that standard approaches to self–management of lung disease will be sub–optimal, that potentially dangerous complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) practices might be used and that timely medical interventions may be delayed.
