Demand for CAM Practice at Hospitals in Japan: A Population Survey in Mie Prefecture

Table 2

Reasons for the demand for CAM practice at hospitals in 2019 respondents (Number with percent in parenthesis).

Reason	Number (%)
Patients can receive treatment under guidance of a physician	1100 (54.5)
Health insurance may be used	984 (48.8)
Patients can receive both CM and CAM in a single hospital	950 (47.1)
Higher effect can be expected by combining CM and CAM	858 (42.5)
Multiple approaches to illness can be expected	854 (42.3)
Better sanitary condition can be expected	142 (7.0)
Other	30 (1.5)

CM, conventional medicine.