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. 2025 May 20.
doi: 10.1007/s11606-025-09620-5. Online ahead of print.

The Use of Complementary Health Approaches Among U.S. Veterans from 2002 to 2022: a Prevalence and Sex-Stratified Analysis

McKenzie Watson  1 , Zhi Chen  2 , Kaushal B Nanavati  3 , Jamie L Romeiser  4
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The Use of Complementary Health Approaches Among U.S. Veterans from 2002 to 2022: a Prevalence and Sex-Stratified Analysis

McKenzie Watson et al. J Gen Intern Med. .
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Keywords: complementary health approaches; complementary medicine; integrative medicine; veterans; whole health.

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Declarations. Ethics Statement: All data are available to the public and de-identified, and therefore do not meet the definition of human subject research. This project was exempt from IRB review. Conflict of Interest: The authors do not have any conflicts of interest.

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