Table 2 Percentage of doctors responding.
| Percentage of doctors | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Is it ethical for the physician to accept the [item]? | Totally proper | Proper | Neither proper nor improper | Improper | Totally improper |
| Samples | 56.0 | 35.6 | 8.3 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| Lunch | 40.3 | 36.6 | 16.2 | 4.6 | 2.3 |
| Model | 34.3 | 40.7 | 18.5 | 4.2 | 2.3 |
| Consultantship | 23.3 | 29.8 | 22.3 | 16.7 | 7.9 |
| Imagine that you were in the position of this physician. Would you accept the [item]? | Almost surely | Probably | Not sure | Probably not | Absolutely not |
| Samples | 66.2 | 30.1 | 0.5 | 1.4 | 1.9 |
| Lunch | 40.5 | 44.7 | 5.1 | 6.0 | 3.7 |
| Model | 35.2 | 38.4 | 8.3 | 13.0 | 5.1 |
| Consultantship | 19.9 | 25.0 | 13.0 | 22.7 | 19.4 |
| If you accepted the [item], would your decision about whether to prescribe the drug be influenced? | Almost surely | Probably | Not sure | Probably not | Absolutely not |
| Samples | 2.8 | 30.6 | 10.2 | 36.1 | 20.4 |
| Lunch | 0.0 | 7.9 | 12.0 | 44.9 | 35.2 |
| Model | 0.5 | 2.8 | 8.9 | 40.7 | 47.2 |
| Consultantship | 5.7 | 20.5 | 10.0 | 36.7 | 27.1 |
| Do you think the average physician would accept the [item]? | Almost surely | Probably | Not sure | Probably not | Absolutely not |
| Samples | 55.6 | 44.0 | 0.4 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| Lunch | 40.7 | 55.6 | 2.8 | 0.9 | 0.0 |
| Model | 25.0 | 57.4 | 16.2 | 1.4 | 0.0 |
| Consultantship | 16.7 | 38.9 | 33.3 | 11.1 | 0.0 |
| If he/she did accept the [item], would his/her decision about whether to prescribe the drug be influenced? | Almost surely | Probably | Not sure | Probably not | Absolutely not |
| Samples | 4.6 | 33.3 | 24.1 | 31.5 | 6.5 |
| Lunch | 0.5 | 17.2 | 25.6 | 50.2 | 6.5 |
| Model | 0.5 | 11.6 | 23.7 | 51.2 | 13.0 |
| Consultantship | 7.9 | 29.2 | 25.0 | 34.3 | 3.7 |