Table 2.
Percentages of participants agreeing / disagreeing with different statements, by profession/specialty
| % (n) agree or disagree with statementa | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Statement | Oncologist | Rheuma-tologist | Emergency Department Physician | Pulmo- nologist |
Path- ologist |
Interventional radiologist | Nurse practitioner | Physician assistant | Clinical Pharmacist | Asymptotic Significance (2-sided)b | |
| “In my setting, electronic medical records are not always up to date regarding new treatments”(n=547) | Agree |
49.4% (43) |
62.8% (27) |
48.8% (21) |
65.9% (29) |
61.9% (26) |
48.8% (21) |
31.8% (28) |
44.8% (30) |
44.4% (40) |
0.015 |
| Neutral |
23% (20) |
14% (6) |
20.9% (9) |
13.6% (6) |
7.1% (3) |
25.6% (11) |
19.3% (17) |
19.4% (13) |
23.3% (21) |
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| Disagree |
27.6% (24) |
23.3% (10) |
30.2% (13) |
20.5% (9) |
31% (13) |
25.6% (11) |
48.9% (43) |
35.8% (24) |
32.2% (29) |
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| “Despite the volume of new agents available, very few constitute real innovations” (n=375) | Agree |
43.2% (38) |
N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
43.2% (19) |
23.9% (21) |
32.8% (22) |
35.2% (31) |
0.016 |
| Neutral |
33% (29) |
N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
34.1% (15) |
29.5% (26) |
26.9% (18) |
38.6% (34) |
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| Disagree |
23.9% (21) |
N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
22.7% (10) |
46.6% (41) |
40.3% (27) |
26.1% (23) |
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| Current guidelines do not reflect current treatment landscape (n=374) | Agree | 42.0% (37) | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | 59.5% (25) | 21.6% (19) | 37.9% (25) | 32.2% (29) | 0.001 |
| Neutral | 39.8% (35) | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | 31.0% (13) | 39.8% (35) | 27.3% (18) | 44.4% (40) | ||
| Disagree | 18.2% (16) | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | 9.5% (4) | 38.6% (34) | 34.8% (23) | 23.3% (31) | ||
| “I prefer prescribing treatments I am familiar with, unless the risk-reward is really important” (n=275) | Agree |
64.4% (56) |
N/A |
43.2% (19) |
N/A | N/A |
78.1% (32) |
49.4% (41) |
57.8% (37) |
N/A | 0.011 |
| Neutral |
24.1% (21) |
N/A |
34.1% (15) |
N/A | N/A |
19.5% (8) |
24.1% (20) |
20.3% (13) |
N/A | ||
| Disagree |
11.5% (10) |
N/A |
22.7% (10) |
N/A | N/A |
2.4% (1) |
26.5% (22) |
21.9% (14) |
N/A | ||
| “I expect other health care professionals in charge of completing the biopsy to know exactly how much tissue is required” (n=247) | Agree |
74.4% (32) |
N/A | N/A | 64.3% (27) | 44.2% (19) | N/A | 76.2% (32) | 67.4% (29) | 82.4% (28) | 0.000 |
| Neutral |
23.3% (10) |
N/A | N/A | 16.7% (7) | 16.3% (7) | N/A | 11.9% (5) | 23.3% (10) |
8.8% (3) |
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| Disagree |
2.3% (1) |
N/A | N/A | 19.0% (8) | 39.5% (17) | N/A |
11.9% (5) |
9.3% (4) |
8.8% (3) |
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N/A = Question was not asked to this profession/specialty sub-group
aParticipants indicated their level of agreement to these statements using a 5-point scale: 1-Strongly agree, 2- Agree, 3- Neither agree nor disagree, 4- Disagree, 5- Strongly disagree. This table has grouped responses into Agree (1, 2) Neutral (3) and Disagree (4, 5)
bSignificance across all profession/specialty sub-groups determined by two-sided Pearson’s chi-square tests