Table 3.

Key themes and categories

Key themes	Categories
role of CAM within healthcare system	• integration of CAM
	• CAM in SHI
	• modernisation law (GMG 2004)
	• individual healthcare services (IHS)
	• 'Heilpraktiker'
quality	• difficulties of quality control
	• quality criteria
	• standards/guidelines
	• quality control as instrument for rationalisation
education	• CAM should be included in undergraduate education
	• Parallel continued medical education in CAM and conventional medicine
	• quality of courses needs improvement
	• standardised formats
research	• individual approach of CAM
	• research methodology
	• relevance for practice