Use and expenditure on complementary medicine in England: a population based survey

Many claims are made that complementary medicine use is a substantial and growing part of health-care behaviour. Estimates of practitioner visits in the USA and Australia indicate high levels of use and expenditure. No reliable population-based estimates of practitioner use are available for the UK.In 1998, a previously piloted postal questionnaire was sent to a geographically stratified, random sample of 5010 adults in England. The...