Department: Quality Improvement Document Identifier: SD/QID/1002/01
Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) is a wide-reaching term that is usually used to describe a range of health approaches that have their history or origins outside of conventional, mainstream or 'Western' medicine. Other terms used include alternative therapy, holistic therapy, and traditional medicine. Whilst generally used interchangeably, the two terms 'complementary' and 'alternative' refer to different concepts:
| 1.1 | To define the minimum requirements including licensing and service specifications to ensure acceptable minimum levels of quality, performance, safety, and reliability of Outpatient Complementary Alternative Medicine CAM Services licensed by Dubai Healthcare City Authority (DHCA). |
| 1.2 | To define licensu... |