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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Jul 1.
Published in final edited form as: Med Decis Making. 2012 Jan 12;32(4):636–644. doi: 10.1177/0272989X11431961

Table 3.

Clinician Preference for “Top 5 DA” Topics by All Respondents and by Primary Care Specialty, n (%).

Condition/Topic All respondents (N = 174) Primary Care Specialty
Family Medicine (N = 147) Internal Medicine (N = 11) Pediatrics (N = 16)
Chronic pain 111 (64) 103 (70) 7 (64) 1 (6)
Health behavior change 107 (62) 90 (61) 7 (64) 10 (63)
Advance directives 78 (45) 72 (49) 5 (46) 1 (6)
Diabetes 78 (45) 68 (46) 5 (46) 5 (31)
Low back pain 69 (40) 64 (44) 3 (27) 2 (13)
ADD/ADHD 67 (39) 49 (33) 2 (18) 16 (100)
Depression 64 (37) 51 (35) 3 (27) 10 (63)
Immunizations 62 (36) 47 (32) 2 (18) 13 (81)
Prostate cancer screening 62 (36) 58 (40) 4 (36) 0 (0)
Dementia 60 (35) 53 (36) 7 (64) 0 (0)
Colon cancer screening 56 (32) 54 (37) 2 (18) 0 (0)
Asthma 53 (31) 38 (26) 2 (18) 13 (81)
Menopause 53 (31) 51 (35) 2 (18) 0 (0)
Contraception/Birth control 51 (29) 43 (29) 1 (9) 7 (44)
Weight loss surgery 49 (28) 44 (30) 4 (36) 1 (6)
Coronary artery disease 41 (24) 39 (27) 2 (18) 0 (0)
Heart failure 38 (22) 36 (25) 2 (18) 0 (0)
Breast cancer 36 (21) 33 (22) 3 (27) 0 (0)
Benign prostatic hyperplasia 31 (18) 29 (20) 2 (18) 0 (0)
Prostate cancer 29 (17) 25 (17) 4 (36) 0 (0)
Osteoarthritis 27 (16) 26 (18) 1 (9) 0 (0)
Uterine bleeding/fibroids 24 (14) 23 (16) 1 (9) 0 (0)
None of these 3 (2) 2 (1) 1 (9) 0 (0)