Three years ago, the departments of family medicine and nursing at National Taiwan University Hospital (NTUH) conducted a survey of the use of alternative treatments among more than 100 residents of the hospice ward for terminal cancer patients.
台大醫院家庭醫學部和護理部在三年前，以國內一家為癌末即將臨終的病人專設的「緩和醫療病房」一百多位患者，進行「癌末病人之另類治療行為」問卷調查，發現有百分之八十一．九的病人至少使用一種另類治療。