Neither do they supply treatment recommendations in any way. They do not provide individual patients with medical health care or advice but refer them to their respective physicians. The primary target groups are certified health care professionals and decision-makers in Sweden. IC seek to contribute to evidence-based health and health care development, including relevant elements of proven complementary, alternative and integrative medicine according to WHO recommendations. The homepage features current policy news, research news and their own service for critical analysis of CAM news in the mass media, CritiCAM. The authors conduct research, training and communication activities. IC which is a unique Swedish forum focusing on complementary, alternative (CAM) and integrative care.
The part time work for IC has been scrutinized and is approved by Karolinska Institutet and is in line with the policies for this Governmental body in Sweden. In addition to being the research constellation leader of the integrative care research group at Karolinska Institutet he is also part time, the director of a charitable non-profit research foundation: I C – The Integrative Care Science Center. Torkel Falkenberg: Institutional grants from Ekhaga-, Vidar-, Mahle-, Jochnick-, and Gyllenberg Non Profit Charitable Foundations during the conduct of the study. Niko Kohls: No support from any organisation for the submitted work no financial relationships with any organisations that might have an interest in the submitted work in the previous three years no other relationships or activities that could appear to have influenced the submitted work. Max Petzold: Personal fees from I C - The Integrative Care Science Centre, for statistical analyses during the conduct of the study. Tobias Sundberg: Institutional grants to I C – The Integrative Care Science Centre from the Mahle (Germany), Ekhaga (Sweden), Vidar (Sweden), Jochnick (the Netherlands) and Gyllenberg (Finland) charitable non-profit foundations, during the conduct of the study.
Competing Interests: The researchers were independent from the funders but declare the following competing interests.
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