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Table 2 Perceptions of GPs on the public reporting of institution- and individual-level medicine prescribing data

From: General practitioners’ perceptions of public reporting of institution and individual medicine prescribing data

Survey Items

Institution-level

Individual-level

T

T = (Mean1–Mean2)

p

Mean 1 (SD)

Positive response (%)

Mean 2 (SD)

Positive response (%)

Necessity

3.94 (1.024)

82.14

3.81 (1.039)

76.95

0.13

0.229

Public reporting is necessary

3.89 (1.152)

78.57

3.69 (1.157)

71.75

0.19

0.096

Third-party reporting is necessary

3.98 (1.057)

81.49

3.92 (1.072)

79.22

0.06

0.566

Methodological rigor

3.35 (0.774)

68.18

3.34 (0.783)

65.91

0.01

0.387*

Patients cannot interpret or recognize data complexity

3.10 (1.127)

49.03

2.99 (1.146)

46.43

0.11

0.428

Public reporting data is unreliable

3.72 (1.103)

73.53

3.73 (1.098)

73.70

−0.01

0.959

Lack of appropriately prescribed medicine metrics

3.64 (1.047)

69.48

3.66 (1.050)

70.45

−0.02

0.846

No adequate risk adjustment

2.86 (1.172)

41.50

2.86 (1.237)

41.88

−0.01

0.959

No adequate amount of prescriptions for statistical comparison

3.23 (1.174)

56.49

3.23 (1.209)

55.84

−0.01

0.977

Lack of transparency of methodology

3.58 (1.083)

69.81

3.56 (1.078)

69.16

0.02

0.856

Impact

3.66 (0.622)

83.12

3.66 (0.636)

81.49

0

0.881*

Improved prescription quality

3.82 (1.032)

77.92

3.86 (1.032)

78.90

−0.04

0.716

GPs learn more knowledge on the rational prescription of medicines

4.05 (1.008)

84.09

4.12 (0.952)

86.27

−0.07

0.636

Provide a sense of achievement to GPs

3.31 (1.100)

56.82

3.31 (1.093)

57.47

0.01

0.994

Refuse high-risk patients

3.5 (1.04)

68.63

3.5 (1.031)

68.51

0

0.995

Improve numbers and not quality

3.49 (1.074)

68.83

3.5 (1.080)

68.83

−0.01

0.92

Penalize low performing GPs

3.76 (1.010)

78.90

3.74 (1.015)

77.92

0.02

0.832

Loss of volume of patients

3.75 (0.873)

78.57

3.70 (0.951)

75.97

0.05

0.800

Increase medical disputes

3.59 (1.088)

70.13

3.57 (1.090)

69.16

0.02

0.854

  1. Percentage of positive response = (1/2 number of GPs who obtained a score of 3 + all numbers of GPs who obtained a score of 4 + all numbers of GPs who obtained score of 5)/ total number of GPs; * represents the p value calculated with paired t-tests; otherwise, calculated with nonparametric test; bold text represents the results of dimension