Survey Itema | Moderately or Strongly Agree, n (%)b | |||
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Practicing physicians | Medical students | p-value | ||
Age 30–40 years (n = 350) | All yearsc (n = 3395) | Unadjustedd | Adjusted for sexe | |
Doctors are too busy to worry about the costs of tests and procedures. | 112/342 (33) | 995/2947 (34) | 0.71 | 0.76 |
Trying to contain costs is the responsibility of every physician. | 286/342 (84) | 2640/2932 (90) | < 0.001 | 0.001 |
Physicians should take a more prominent role in limiting use of unnecessary tests. | 298/342 (87) | 2896/3003 (96) | < 0.001 | < 0.001 |
Cost to society should be important in physician decisions to use or not to use an intervention. | 197/342 (58) | 2062/2951 (70) | < 0.001 | < 0.001 |
Physicians should sometimes deny beneficial but costly services to certain patients because resources should go to other patients who need them more. | 47/340 (14) | 1024/2987 (34) | < 0.001 | < 0.001 |
It is unfair to ask physicians to be cost-conscious and still keep the welfare of their patients foremost in their minds. | 158/343 (46) | 887/2950 (30) | < 0.001 | < 0.001 |
Practicing cost-conscious care will undermine patients’ trust in physicians.f | 102/327 (31) | 482/2931 (16) | < 0.001 | < 0.001 |
Physicians should be aware of the costs of the tests or treatments they recommend. | 239/434 (70) | 2920/3000 (97) | N/Ag | N/Ag |
Physicians should try not to think about the cost to the health care system when making treatment decisions. | 143/343 (42) | 652/2997 (22) | N/Ag | N/Ag |
Physicians should be solely devoted to individual patients’ best interests, even if that is expensive. | 272/340 (80) | 2265/3005 (75) | 0.06 | 0.03 |
The cost of a test or medication is only important if the patient has to pay for it out of pocket. | 68/343 (20) | 399/2951 (14) | 0.002 | 0.001 |