Table 2.
The Impact of Medical Representative Interaction Frequency on Physicians’ Guideline Understanding, Implementation, and Perspectives.
| Variable | Total (n = 1203) |
Frequent interaction (n = 82) |
Moderate interaction (n = 930) |
Rare interaction (n = 191) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Awareness and understanding about the GL, n (%) | ||||
| Be aware of the GL publication and understand its contents | 240 (20.0) | 31 (37.8) | 194 (20.9) | 15 (7.9) |
| Be aware of the publication of the GL but not understand its contents | 694 (57.7) | 42 (51.2) | 539 (58.0) | 113 (59.2) |
| Be unaware of the publication of the GL | 269 (22.4) | 9 (11.0) | 197 (21.2) | 63 (33.0) |
| Changes after GL compliance, n (%) | ||||
| Decreased frequency of visits with MR | 426 (35.4) | 38 (46.3) | 334 (35.9) | 54 (28.3) |
| Decreased frequency of in-hospital briefings | 400 (33.3) | 42 (51.2) | 312 (33.6) | 46 (24.1) |
| Decreased frequency of out-of-hospital events | 426 (35.4) | 33 (40.2) | 351 (37.7) | 42 (22.0) |
| Content of the information provided by the MR became more superficial than the past | 311 (25.9) | 26 (31.7) | 259 (27.9) | 26 (13.6) |
| Publications of Guidelines and other regulations, n (%) | ||||
| Agree | 79 (6.6) | 9 (11.0) | 52 (5.6) | 18 (9.4) |
| Partly agree | 246 (20.5) | 14 (17.1) | 180 (19.4) | 52 (27.2) |
| Neutral | 238 (19.8) | 8 (9.7) | 169 (18.2) | 61 (31.9) |
| Partly disagree | 341 (28.4) | 23 (28.1) | 285 (30.7) | 33 (17.3) |
| Disagree | 299 (24.9) | 28 (34.2) | 244 (26.2) | 27 (14.1) |
GL: guideline; MR: medical representative.