Utilization of and Attitudes towards Traditional Chinese Medicine Therapies in a Chinese Cancer Hospital: A Survey of Patients and Physicians

Table 4

Percent of patient use, physician estimate of patient use, and patients asking about therapy, patients to whom physicians recommended therapy.

Therapy (% range of physicians)	Patient use (%)	Physician estimate of patients using this therapy (%)	Patients asking about this therapy (%)	Patients to whom physician has recommended use of this therapy (%)
TCM overall	83.5
Herbal decoctions	47.6
0%		9.9	4.2	12.7
1–25%		39.4 *	33.8	45.1
26–50%		33.8	18.3	26.8
>50%		16.9	43.7	15.5
Patent medicine	31.8
0%		6.9	1.4	4.3
1–25%		23.6	33.8	44.3
26–50%		16.7	26.8	30.0
>50%		51.9	38.0	21.4
Injections	2.5
0%		15.3	18.1	37.5
1–25%		73.6	66.7	50.0
26–50%		5.6	9.7	6.9
>50%		5.6	5.6	5.6
Tonics/supplements	50.4
0%		14.5	5.7	44.3
1–25%		44.1	28.6	44.3
26–50%		18.8	25.7	5.7
>50%		23.2	40.0	5.7
Food therapy	41.5
0%		20.6	17.1	31.3
1–25%		42.7	34.3	38.8
26–50%		16.2	27.1	13.4
>50%		20.6	21.4	16.4
Acupuncture	1.3
0%		39.4	43.3	47.8
1–25%		56.1	52.2	43.3
26–50%		4.6	4.5	7.5
>50%		0.0	0.0	1.5
Qi Gong	3.4
0%		48.5	55.1	75.4
1–25%		43.9	34.8	18.8
26–50%		4.6	7.3	2.9
>50%		3.0	2.9	2.9