Table 2.

Effect of the Intervention on Physicians' Willingness to Consider Drug Costs When Prescribing (n = 109)

	Agree, %*		Mean Response†
	Pre-intervention	Post-intervention	Pre-intervention	Post-intervention	P Value‡
I ask my patients about the cost of drugs to them.	22	27	2.8	3.1	<.01
I am often unaware of actual drug costs.	78	72	3.9	3.7	.02
I believe cost is an important consideration when prescribing.	84	95	4.1	4.3	.20
I have easy access to drug cost information.	36	36	2.7	2.7	.94
I am willing to sacrifice some efficacy for affordability.	72	82	3.7	3.8	.33
I prefer brand-name drugs to generic regardless of cost.	10	6	1.8	1.7	.29

^*Those responding with “Somewhat agree” or “Strongly agree.”

^†Mean response reflects answers on a 5-point Likert scale (1 = strongly disagree, 5 = strongly agree).

^‡These P values are based on our primary statistical method of assessing intervention effectiveness, the Wilcoxon matched-pairs signed-rank test. We compared the matched changes (pre- versus post-intervention) to the null hypothesis of no change.