TY - JOUR AU - Franzel, Brigitte AU - Schwiegershausen, Martina AU - Heusser, Peter AU - Berger, Bettina PY - 2013 DA - 2013/06/03 TI - Individualised medicine from the perspectives of patients using complementarytherapies: a meta-ethnography approach JO - BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine SP - 124 VL - 13 IS - 1 AB - Personalised (or individualised) medicine in the days of genetic researchrefers to molecular biologic specifications in individuals and not to aresponse to individual patient needs in the sense of person-centredmedicine. Studies suggest that patients often wish for authenticallyperson-centred care and personal physician-patient interactions, and thatthey therefore choose Complementary and Alternative medicine (CAM) as apossibility to complement standard care and ensure a patient-centredapproach. Therefore, to build on the findings documented in thesequalitative studies, we investigated the various concepts of individualisedmedicine inherent in patients’ reasons for using CAM. SN - 1472-6882 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/1472-6882-13-124 DO - 10.1186/1472-6882-13-124 ID - Franzel2013 ER -