Selected Recommendations of the White House Commission on Complementary and Alternative Medicine Policy

2002 ◽  
Vol 94 (9) ◽  
pp. 647-647 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Alternative Medicine ◽  
Complementary And Alternative Medicine ◽  
White House ◽  
Complementary And Alternative

National Policy on CAM: The White House Commission Report

2003 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
pp. 251-261 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kathleen M. Boozang
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Alternative Medicine ◽  
Complementary And Alternative Medicine ◽  
National Policy ◽  
Final Report ◽  
White House ◽  
Health Care Professions ◽  
Commission Report ◽  
Policy Proposals ◽  
Complementary And Alternative

In March 2000, President William Clinton signed Executive Order 13,147, establishing the White House Commission on Complementary and Alternative Medicine, to develop public policy proposals geared toward maximizing “the benefits to Americans of complementary and alternative medicine.” Disconcertingly, the Commission's charge presumed the safety and efficacy of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM). In so doing, it placed the proverbial cart before the horse by setting the Commission on a mission to “address education and training of health care practitioners in CAM; [coordinate] research to increase knowledge about CAM products; [provide] reliable and useful information on CAM to health care professions, and [provide] guidance on the appropriate access to and delivery of CAM.”The Commission's final report (“Commission Report”), issued in March 2002, similarly skirts the fundamental question of whether evidence exists that CAM interventions are safe or offer sufficient benefit to justify their proliferation.

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