2015, Number 5
Clinical method in Traditional and Natural Medicine
Language: Spanish
References: 25
Page: 539-550
PDF size: 507.16 Kb.
ABSTRACT
Background: clinical method is the organized sequence of actions used by doctors. I t is the scientific method applied to the clinical practice as well as the order followed to study and understand the health-disease process. The development achieved by natural and traditional medicine and the diversity of information related to the clinical diagnosis have motivated the carrying out of this article.Objective: to tackle the clinical method from the approach o f natural and traditional medicine.
Methods: a documentary review on clinical method and its application in natural and traditional medicine was made. The main medical data bases (Scielo, PubMed, EBSCO, Hinari) were used. Of 25 materials in Spanish and English, 19 were scientific articles and the rest were books published between 1985 and 2015.
Development: clinical method is the w ork order made by means of the development of the patient-doctor relationship, using the medical history as a record tool with the objective of arriving at a comprehensive diagnosis of a patient, the prognosis and the management. According to the guideline number 156 of the Cuban Communist Party (PCC, Spanish acronym) it is necessary to: consolidate the teaching and use of clinical and epidemiological methods so they can contribute to the rational use of technological means for the diagnosis and treatment of diseases. The physiological and methodological foundations of the clinical method in natural and traditional medicine, as well as its stages and the application algorithm, were analyzed.
Conclusions: the application of the clinical method in natural and traditional medicine allow s achieving an efficient and quality health service.
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