Table 3.

Sources of information used by participants to inform their clinical decision-making (in descending order of frequency) (n=567)

Information source	Median (IQR)
Traditional knowledge	4 (2,7)
Published clinical evidence (i.e. clinical trials)	4 (2,7)
Consulting fellow practitioners or experts	4 (3,6)
Textbooks	5 (2,7)
Personal intuition	5 (3,7)
Clinical practice guidelines	6 (3,8)
Personal preference	7 (4,9)
Trial and error	7 (4,9)
Patient preference	7 (5,9)
Published experimental/laboratory evidence	8 (3,10)

IQR Interquartile range