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Table 4 Comparison of clinician response to attitudinal survey questions on resource utilization and spending money to CT ordering behavior

From: Effect of clinical decision rules, patient cost and malpractice information on clinician brain CT image ordering: a randomized controlled trial

 

Case #1 (initial order)

 

Case #2 (5thorder)

 

Survey question

CT

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P-value*

CT

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P-value*

Better use of my resources makes me feel good

 strongly agree (7)

51 (44.4%)

23 (46.0%)

0.84

42 (38.5%)

33 (57.9%)

0.02

 < strongly agree (1–6)

64 (55.7%)

27 (54.0%)

 

67 (61.5%)

24 (42.1%)

I believe in being careful in how I spend my money

 strongly agree (7)

40 (34.78%)

24 (48.0%) 26

0.11

38 (34.9%)

26 (45.6%)

0.18

 < strongly agree (1–6)

75 (65.22%)

(52.0%)

 

71 (65.1%)

31 (54.4%)

  1. *P-value was calculated from Chi-square test