ECAM: Clinical Analyses and Increasing Visibility.

Edwin L Cooper

doi:10.1093/ecam/nep008

Abstract

eCAM: Clinical Analyses and Increasing Visibility.

Highlights

When eCAM was first born in 2004 we recognized our role in the world of integrative medicine, which is to become the model publication devoted to evidence-based approaches, the name ‘evidence based’
I did have another vision and that was to determine if this separation might draw readers’ attention to the need for and the active recruiting of clinical papers
The instructions to authors were rewritten to include quite detailed ways to present clinical data

Summary

Introduction

When eCAM was first born in 2004 we recognized our role in the world of integrative medicine, which is to become the model publication devoted to evidence-based approaches, the name ‘evidence based’. In volume 4, I decided to perhaps change the focus of reader’s attention and to accomplish this, I chose to group the basic science papers together and the clinical analyses together, maintaining the subjects but as distinct and separate categories—nothing wrong with that! I did have another vision and that was to determine if this separation might draw readers’ attention to the need for and the active recruiting of clinical papers.

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Conclusion