Abstract
EDITOR, - Peter Fisher and Adam Ward report high use of complementary therapies throughout Europe.1 The figures for the United Kingdom are based on surveys of public opinion carried out by organisations such as the Market and Opinion Research Institute and Gallup. As the authors admit, such data should be interpreted with caution. With a view to overcoming some of the shortfalls of these studies the Research Council for Complementary Medicine recently commissioned a methodological pilot study for …