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. 2017 Feb 27;24(1):e44–e49. doi: 10.3747/co.24.3358

TABLE II.

Responses to four items on the professional consultation survey

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General questions Overall guideline assessment [n (%)]
Lowest quality (1) (2) (3) (4) Highest quality (5)
Rate the overall quality of the guideline report. 0 0 0 6 (43) 8 (57)
Strongly disagree (1) (2) (3) (4) Strongly agree (5)
I would make use of this guideline in my professional decisions. 0 0 3 (21) 6 (43) 5 (36)
I would recommend this guideline for use in practice. 0 0 1 (7) 4 (29) 9 (64)
What are the barriers or enablers to the implementation of this guideline report?

  • ■ The review is thorough and comprehensive.

  • ■ It would be helpful if there were patient awareness and education for this guideline.

  • ■ The limitation really is the quality of the available source evidence the guidelines are based upon.

  • ■ The barriers are primarily related to the availability of the technology and expertise to offer SBRT.

  • ■ There seems to be sufficient uncertainty to warrant the collection and analysis of further data from monitoring and assessing patients post treatment, to address the evidence gaps that are mentioned. My belief is that many patients would be very willing to participate if requested to do so on an anonymous basis.