Information Resource Needs and Preference of Queensland General Practitioners on Complementary Medicines: Result of a Needs Assessment

Table 3

GPs’ clinical practice of CMs (𝑛=463).

Statement	Never	Seldom	Occasionally	Frequently
	%	Few times a year %	Few times a month %	At least weekly %
I question my patients about their complementary medicines usage	2	17	36	44
I discuss safety issues about complementary medicines with my patients	2	16	42	40
I record patients’ use of complementary medicines in their medical file	4	20	38	38
I prescribe/recommend some complementary medicines to my patients (e.g., nutritional supplements, herbal medicines)	18	32	33	17
I practise some complementary medicines in my practice (e.g., homeopathy, aromatherapy)	81	10	5	4
I refer patients to medically-qualified complementary practitioners	42	37	15	6
I refer patients to nonmedically qualified complementary therapists	64	23	9	4