TABLE 2.

Levels of agreement with thematic quotations

	U/NR	SD/D	Neutral	A/SA
“Time is the number one issue with family physicians.”	1%	4%	9%	86%
“Patients should have accountabilities and responsibilities within the system.”			2%	97%
“Quality is something the system absolutely doesn't come even close to paying for.”	1%	6%	12%	81%
“I get tired of having to fight the system to try to get the facilities and treatment that my patients need.”		3%	9%	88%
“The regions should be investing in family medicine because we are looking after their citizens in the community.”	2%		8%	90%
“When we have a complicated patient in the hospital, there is no question we are working with that patient as a team. The patients in the office these days are often as complicated as that patient in the hospital … it would be ideal to have access to those same resources.”	1%	2%	9%	87%
“The system has changed such that to do the same amount of care [as was previously done] requires a significant increase in the amount of time.”	3%	3%	11%	83%
“We are known as ‘system integrators.’ That's what we do all day. The reason that we are a reliable system integrator is because we have a professional ethic that drives us to do that. There is no one else in the system that carries that burden.”	4%	3%	14%	79%
“I spend a lot of my day doing things that I shouldn't be doing. We need to offload some of the things we do so that we can spend the right time doing the right services for the right patients.”		6%	18%	75%
“There is a whole group of physicians in the city who were denied hospital privileges for no good reason … who were marginalized.”	17%	20%	38%	25%
“I'm not sure where I'm at with quality, because I don't have the tools for quality assessment.”	6%	36%	34%	24%

Percentages may not total 100% due to non-responses.

U/NR=Undecided/No Response

SD/D=Strongly Disagree/Disagree

A/SA=Agree/Strongly Agree