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. 2016 Dec 13;7:673–680. doi: 10.2147/AMEP.S115149

Table 1.

Physicians’ attitude toward guidelines

Characteristics Strongly disagree/disagree (rating 1, 2) Neither disagree nor agree (rating 3) Strongly agree/agree (rating 4, 5)
Guidelines are … n (%) n (%) n (%)
Favorable statements
A convenient source of advice 0 (0) 3 (6) 50 (94)
Likely to improve quality of care 0 (0) 5 (9) 49 (91)
Good educational tools 0 (0) 6 (11) 48 (89)
Likely to decrease malpractice suits 11 (21) 16 (31) 25 (48)
Likely to decrease health care costs 15 (28) 16 (30) 22 (42)
An unbiased synthesis of expert opinion 34 (65) 11 (21) 7 (13)
Unfavorable statements
Oversimplified (cookbook) medicine 37 (69) 10 (19) 7 (13)
Too rigid to apply to individual patients 36 (67) 14 (26) 4 (7)
A challenge to physician autonomy 45 (85) 6 (11) 2 (4)
Developed by experts who understand little of daily clinical routine 46 (85) 6 (11) 2 (4)