Table 3.

Responses to two different methods for selecting the ‘best cancer doctor’ (n=678)

	Selection by media personnel (eg, ‘best doctor’ TV programme in Korea)					Peer selection (eg, ‘best doctor in America’)					P values
	Responses (%)					Responses (%)
	Strongly disagree	Disagree	Agree	Strongly agree	No response	Strongly disagree	Disagree	Agree	Strongly agree	No response
Reliability
The selection method is credible	26.8	63.9	9.1	0.0	0.2	4.4	20.9	61.4	13.3	0.0	<0.001
The selection method is fair	28.8	64.9	6.1	0.0	0.3	4.4	30.5	57.2	7.5	0.3	<0.001
The selection method is valid	28.2	61.5	10.0	0.0	0.3	4.3	28.2	58.4	9.0	0.2	<0.001
Helpfulness of doctor selection
The result would be helpful for the patients to select their doctor	17.6	43.8	36.1	2.4	0.2	3.1	14.8	65.8	16.4	0.0	<0.001
I would consider this information if one of my family members was affected by cancer	26.7	50.9	21.7	0.6	0.2	5.9	18.1	56.9	18.9	0.2	<0.001
Impact on the healthcare system
This would help to improve the quality of cancer care	29.8	57.7	12.4	0.2	0.0	6.8	32.6	50.4	9.4	0.7	<0.001

P value by the McNemar test for paired samples, after dichotomisation of the ‘Agree’ responses with the others.