Table 2.
Acupuncture | Homoeopathy | |
Patients seen quarterly* | min = 4/ max = 3000 mean = 1060/ SD = 556 | min = 60/ max = 1500 mean = 834/ SD = 428 |
Time since start of practicing (in years) | min = 1/ max = 39 mean = 8/ SD = 5 | min = 3/ max = 35 mean = 13/ SD = 10 |
Other treatments used | ||
Allopathy | 95% yes | 88% Yes |
Acupuncture/homoeopathy | 36% yes | 69% yes |
Phytomedicine | 56% yes | 63% yes |
Anthroposophical medicine | 6% yes | 6% yes |
Neural therapy | 63% yes | 50% yes |
* doctors may have understood this question as referring to the trial phase, or to their practice size in general