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. 2015 Sep 16;6(3):577–590. doi: 10.4338/ACI-2015-04-RA-0043

Table 2.

Physician beliefs about the effect of generating and providing the AVS on care the physician personally delivers

Response categories Specialty Beliefs*
Effectiveness Patient-centered care Outcomes Quality Continuity Patient adherence Efficiency
Negative effect (-1 or -2) Specialty 19.9% 18.1% 13.0% 14.7% 10.5% 9.2% 56.6%
Primary Care 12.1% 9.8% 4.6% 6.9% 2.9% 4.7% 56.3%
All 18.1% 16.3% 11.2% 13.0% 8.8% 8.2% 56.5%
No effect Specialty 58.6% 52.8% 68.6% 61.7% 68.1% 58.8% 35.8%
Primary Care 43.1% 35.3% 57.8% 48.0% 59.6% 39.0% 32.2%
All 55.2% 48.9% 66.2% 58.7% 66.3% 54.4% 35.0%
Positive effect (+1 or +2) Specialty 21.5% 29.2% 18.4% 23.6% 21.4% 32.0% 7.6%
Primary Care 44.8%** 54.9%** 37.6%** 45.1%** 37.4%** 56.4%** 11.5%
All 26.6% 34.8% 22.6% 28.3% 24.9% 37.4% 8.5%
Mean (SD) Specialty -0.04(0.85) 0.06 (0.88) 0.01 (0.72) 0.05 (0.79) 0.09(0.72) 0.22 (0.76) -0.64 (0.86)
Primary Care 0.37 (0.86) 0.55(0.89) 0.39(0.72) 0.46 (0.78) 0.41 (0.71) 0.60 (0.76) -0.59 (0.94)
All 0.05(0.86) 0.16(0.90) 0.09(0.72) 0.14(0.80) 0.16(0.72) 0.30 (0.77) -0.63 (0.88)

*Individual items on the survey

**p=.000 (specialty vs primary care)