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National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (U.S.)

The mission of NCCIH is to define, through rigorous scientific investigation, the usefulness and safety of complementary and integrative health interventions and their roles in improving health and health care. The Center was established in 1999 and was known as NCCAM National Center of Complementary and Alternative Medicine until 2015.

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The mission of NCCIH is to define, through rigorous scientific investigation, the usefulness and safety of complementary and integrative health interventions and their roles in improving health and health care. The Center was established in 1999 and was known as NCCAM National Center of Complementary and Alternative Medicine until 2015.

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  • NCCHI
  • National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health
  • National Center of Complementary and Alternative Medicine

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9 allowable subheadings

Indexed with the subheadings classification, economics, ethics, history, legislation & jurisprudence, organization & administration, standards, statistics & numerical data, trends.

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add UNITED STATES; research support by this agency is checked as RESEARCH SUPPORT, N.I.H., EXTRAMURAL or RESEARCH SUPPORT, N.I.H., INTRAMURAL; CATALOGER: Use NAF entry

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2017

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References

  1. National Library of Medicine. National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (U.S.). Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D000072667. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D000072667
  2. National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (U.S.). In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Center_for_Complementary_and_Integrative_Health
  3. National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (U.S.). In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3278030