title: The integrative hospital explored via acupuncture.
abstract: To integrate complementary and allopathic medicine within a single hospital requires close attention to models of health care delivery, economics, and medical philosophy. The practice of acupuncture can be used as a heuristic device to examine these issues and how solutions may apply to other complementary modalities in the creation of such a hospital facility.
authors.forename: D M
authors.initials: DM
authors.lastname: Schuster
mesh_terms: D015670:Acupuncture Therapy; D000529:Complementary Therapies; D003362:Cost-Benefit Analysis; D004469:Economics, Hospital; D006761:Hospitals / Q000639:trends*; D006801:Humans; D007882:Legislation, Hospital; D008516:Medicine, Chinese Traditional; D017146:Models, Organizational; D010686:Philosophy, Medical; D014481:United States