@book{10.7249/mg591nccam, ISBN = {9780833045591}, URL = {http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7249/mg591nccam}, abstract = {This study tracks the establishment of a single hospital-based integrative medicine center. Although some factors clearly worked in favor of the center, the hospital had few models to guide it and no experience in creating such a clinic. Thus, it made many decisions in the areas of administration, finance, and legal issues that created barriers to the center's success, and the center was ultimately closed.}, author = {Ian D. Coulter and Marcia A. Ellison and Lara Hilton and Hilary J. Rhodes and Gery Ryan}, edition = {1}, publisher = {RAND Corporation}, title = {Hospital-Based Integrative Medicine: A Case Study of the Barriers and Factors Facilitating the Creation of a Center}, year = {2008} }