| Table 6: Opinions of respondents about CPGs
|
| Statement about CPGs |
Response; no. (and %*) of respondents |
| Strongly disagree/disagree |
Neutral | Agree/strongly agree | No response |
| Likely to be used for quality-assurance review |
101 (7) | 427 (26) |
1197 (67) |
153 |
| Development motivated by desire to improve quality of care | 184 (10) | 464 (27)
| 1083 (63) | 147
|
| Likely to be used in physician disciplinary action
| 249 (17) | 418 (23)
| 1062 (60) | 149
|
| Development motivated by desire to cut costs
| 274 (15) | 485 (30)
| 965 (55) | 154 |
| Convenient source of advice | 217 (12)
| 660 (35) | 857 (53)
| 144 |
| Good education tool | 251 (11)
| 692 (38) | 773 (51)
| 162 |
| Unbiased synthesis of expert opinion | 409 (23)
| 820 (45) | 572 (32)
| 77 |
| Too rigid to apply to individual patients |
635 (39) | 650 (35)
| 436 (26) | 157 |
| Challenge to physician autonomy | 843 (48)
| 509 (29) | 364 (23)
| 162 |
| Oversimplified or "cookbook" medicine
| 649 (43) | 607 (38)
| 453 (22) | 169 |
| *Percentages may not total 100 because of weighting by sample strata.
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