Table 2 Primary care physicians' responses to clinical vignettes by primary care specialty
From: Screening mammography beliefs and recommendations: a web-based survey of primary care physicians
Primary care specialty | Family Physicians | General Internal Medicine | Obstetrics and gynaecology | Â | Â | Â | Â |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Â | FP | IM | OBG* | Over all | IM vs OBG | FP vs OBG | FP vs IM |
Would order screening mammogram for following case scenarios....... | n (%) | n (%) | n (%) | P- value | |||
Healthy 70 year old woman | 245 (90) | 223 (96) | 143 (95) | 0.024 | 0.795 | 0.088 | 0.013 |
50-year-old with unresectable non-small cell lung cancer | 102 (38) | 61 (26) | 81 (54) | < 0.001* | < 0.001* | 0.001* | 0.007 |
Healthy 55-year-old woman | 264 (97) | 224 (97) | 148 (99) | 0.466 | 0.327 | 0.501 | 0.608 |
80-year-old with ischemic cardiomyopathy who has dyspnoea with ordinary activity | 44 (16) | 39 (17) | 56 (37) | < 0.001* | < 0.001* | < 0.001* | 0.904 |