title: [Exploring a new mode of integrative medicine information service].
abstract: With the significant and continuous growth of the research and application of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) all over the world, the demand for medical information services has been increasing correspondingly. However, the barriers of accessing and utilizing non-English literature, and the barrier of language have blocked English speaking clinicians and researchers of CAM from obtaining high quality and authoritative medical evidence from the non-English medical resources. This article, with introducing the UCLA Information Center for East-West Integrative Medicine, will demonstrate a new collaborative mode of integrative medicine information service between China and the US, and discuss the perceived challenges.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Information on Traditional Chinese Medicine, China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, Beijing.
authors.forename: Da-Ming
authors.initials: DM
authors.lastname: Su
authors.forename: Wei-Yu
authors.initials: WY
authors.lastname: Fan
authors.forename: Meng
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Cui
mesh_terms: D002681:China; D000529:Complementary Therapies; D007255:Information Services; D016247:Information Storage and Retrieval; D055048:Integrative Medicine; D007802:Language; D014481:United States