The table and the charts provide information about complementary medicine over three years, 2011, 2014, and 2016. Overall, as the proportion of complementary medicine use in U.S. hospital increased, the related revenue created raised consequently. Besides, the bar chart presents the natural products as the most common complementary health approach among other variables in 2012.
Due to U.S. hospital report, the use of complementary medicine increased gradually from less than 2.5% in 1985, to more than 12% in 2000. As is observed from that point upwards, it surged markedly to 40% in 2010. Moreover, according to the table, the revenue created by complementary medicine of hospitals was 11.34 in 2011, and it improved to 13.1, and 14.3 in 2014 and 2016, respectively.
On the other hand, the bar chart demonstrates that the most common complementary health approach happened in natural products with approximately 18%, far above the next closest sector. It is worth to mention that, deep breathing and yoga are the second most common approaches with the amount of 11% and 10%, respectively. Although there are some few differences in numbers, but chiropractic, meditation and massage are the third level of approach with more or less that 8%. Finally, the rest of the approaches such as, especial diets, homeopathy and guided imagery are negligible with less than 3%.