Table 4.
Importance of patient characteristics for clinical decision-making (n = 994)
| Mean rating1 | Respondents2 |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | ||
| Age | 5.86 (1.1) | 0.1 (1) | 0.4 (4) | 2.2 (21) | 7.6 (73) | 24.0 (230) | 32.3 (310) | 33.4 (321) |
| Gender | 4.61 (1.5) | 1.6 (15) | 8.5 (81) | 11.5 (110) | 22.9 (219) | 27.9 (267) | 16.2 (155) | 11.4 (109) |
| Race/ethnicity | 4.42 (1.4) | 1.9 (18) | 8.2 (79) | 16.1 (154) | 24.4 (234) | 26.8 (256) | 14.5 (139) | 8.0 (77) |
| Family history | 4.39 (1.5) | 2.2 (21) | 11.6 (111) | 15.1 (145) | 21.7 (208) | 25.5 (245) | 13.8 (133) | 10.1 (97) |
| Insurance | 4.27 (1.7) | 8.0 (77) | 11.7 (112) | 10.7 (103) | 21.0 (202) | 21.4 (205) | 17.8 (171) | 9.4 (90) |
1
Figures in parentheses are SD.
2
Figures are percentages with numbers in parentheses. Numbers do not add up to 994, since each question had some missing values.