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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Mar 3.
Published in final edited form as: Ann Intern Med. 2015 May 19;162(10):690–696. doi: 10.7326/M15-0166

Table 2.

Support for Research on Medical Practices

Response Respondents (n = 1095), n (%)
“To find out which standard medical treatments are best, health systems should conduct research.”

 Strongly disagree 10 (0.9)

 Somewhat disagree 24 (2.2)

 Somewhat agree 247 (22.6)

 Strongly agree 814 (74.3)
“In your opinion, how acceptable is it for health systems to use randomization to compare how well different standard treatments work?”

 Never acceptable 29 (2.6)

 Rarely acceptable 50 (4.6)

 Sometimes acceptable 340 (31.1)

 Usually acceptable 508 (46.4)

 Always acceptable 168 (15.3)