Table 2.
Case Presentations: “Is This Patient Cured?”
| Survivor Case | Physician |
Nurse Practitioner |
Physician's Assistant |
Total |
P* | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No. | % | No. | % | No. | % | No. | % | ||
| 1: Testicular cancer | < .001 | ||||||||
| Yes | 78 | 92.9 | 10 | 55.6 | 6 | 60.0 | 94 | 83.9 | |
| No | 1 | 1.2 | 0 | 0.0 | 1 | 10.0 | 2 | 1.8 | |
| I don't know | 2 | 2.4 | 5 | 27.8 | 2 | 20.0 | 9 | 8.0 | |
| As oncologists, we don't know | 3 | 3.6 | 3 | 16.7 | 1 | 10.0 | 7 | 6.3 | |
| 2: Large-cell lymphoma | .005 | ||||||||
| Yes | 69 | 83.1 | 12 | 63.2 | 4 | 40.0 | 85 | 75.9 | |
| No | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 1 | 10.0 | 1 | 0.9 | |
| I don't know | 7 | 8.4 | 5 | 26.3 | 3 | 30.0 | 15 | 13.4 | |
| As oncologists, we don't know | 7 | 8.4 | 2 | 10.5 | 2 | 20.0 | 11 | 9.8 | |
| 3: Breast cancer | .574 | ||||||||
| Yes | 39 | 47.6 | 10 | 58.8 | 4 | 36.4 | 53 | 48.2 | |
| No | 4 | 4.9 | 1 | 5.9 | 1 | 9.1 | 6 | 5.5 | |
| I don't know | 11 | 13.4 | 3 | 17.6 | 3 | 27.3 | 17 | 15.5 | |
| As oncologists, we don't know | 28 | 34.1 | 3 | 17.6 | 3 | 27.3 | 34 | 30.9 | |
*
Fisher's exact test.