The National University of Natural Medicine and the Helfgott Research Institute have created the Traditional, Complementary and Integrative Health and Medicine COVID-19 Support Registry to "capture key cases, treatment/supportive care, and outcome variables related to the use of traditional, complementary, and integrative health products and practices, in response to issues related to COVID-19."
The American Society of Acupuncturists, Society for Acupuncture Research and other organizations collaborated to ensure questions include East Asian Medicine treatment approaches. In its press release, the ASA noted several key benefits for the EAM profession:
- "To gather data that demonstrates that EAM practitioners are indeed working during the COVID-19 pandemic; and that EAM therapies are being used to support patients with COVID-19 symptoms."
- "Health services data like this may be useful (now, and in future) to lobby legislators/regulators to consider whether EAM practitioners should be deemed essential healthcare workers."
Registry contributions have already been made by a broad range of institutions including National, the ASA, the SAR, Canadian College of Naturopathic Medicine, NYU Medical School, Harvard Medical School, Univ. of Toronto, Univ. of Texas, New England School of Acupuncture at MCPHS Univ., Ontario College of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Southern California University of Health Sciences, Weill Cornell Medical College, Immanuel Hospital Berlin, Univ. of Sydney, and others.
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