Table 1.

Advantages, barriers and potential enablers of CPMs as endorsed by survey respondents; in weighted rank (r) order. Additionally, ‘% 1’ denotes the percentage of time an element was endorsed as the top-ranking

Advantages	r	% 1
Guides appropriate treatment	299	53
Justifies treatment decisions made	217	20
Incorporates large body of evidence	156	19
Motivates patient to make lifestyle changes	70	4
Promotes equity of treatment	62	4
Scores QOF points	21	1
Other	4	1
Barriers
Do not have time to use during a consultation	163	24
Not relevant for use in all patients	161	19
Not integrated with electronic patient records	147	21
Do not know which risk score to use	103	12
Do not include all risk factors	92	9
Lack of link to clinical actions	63	6
Do not add to my clinical judgement	42	3
Encourage over-treatment	34	4
Encourage under-treatment	11	1
Other	8	1
Undermine my professionalism	4	1
Enablers
Ensure good treatment decisions	133	16
Integration with electronic patient records	131	22
Quick to use	126	17
Strong link to clinical action	109	12
Add value to clinical judgement	93	12
Provides justification for clinical decisions	82	9
Easy to use	80	9
Transparency of the methods behind the risk score	32	2
Motivate patient to make lifestyle changes	27	1
Well incentivised	9	1
Other	0	0

Key – QOF Quality and Outcomes Framework