Demographic and occupational characteristics and respondent reading behaviour (n=1008)
| Demographic and occupational characteristics | n (%) |
| Age (years)* | |
| ≤34 | 101 (11.6) |
| 35–44 | 196 (22.5) |
| 45–54 | 308 (35.3) |
| ≥55 | 268 (30.7) |
| Gender* | |
| Female | 643(73.7) |
| Male | 230(26.3) |
| Professional role* | |
| Allied health professional | 25 (2.9) |
| Medical practitioner | 240 (27.5) |
| Nurse | 277 (31.7) |
| Paramedic | 24 (2.7) |
| Pharmacist | 35 (4.0) |
| Quality and risk manager | 99 (11.3) |
| Other | 173 (19.8) |
| Experience in profession (years)* | |
| ≤5 | 183 (21.0) |
| 6–10 | 130 (14.9) |
| 11–15 | 115 (13.2) |
| 16–20 | 86 (9.9) |
| ≥21 | 359 (41.1) |
| Workplace setting* | |
| Government department/agency | 41 (4.7) |
| Hospital—acute | 451 (51.7) |
| Hospital—subacute | 47 (5.4) |
| Primary care | 72 (8.2) |
| Residential aged care service | 109 (12.5) |
| University or other academic | 32 (3.7) |
| Other | 121 (13.9) |
| State or country* | |
| Victoria | 549 (62.9) |
| Other state or territory of Australia | 313 (35.9) |
| Other country | 11 (1.3) |
| Frequency of patient interaction per week (days)* | |
| <1 | 230 (26.3) |
| 1 | 58 (6.6) |
| 2 or 3 | 107 (12.3) |
| 4 or more | 478 (54.8) |
| Level of contact with Coroners Court* | |
| Taken part in an inquest | 148 (17.0) |
| Provided a statement | 207 (23.7) |
| Contacted Court to discuss if death was reportable | 338 (38.7) |
| Contacted Court for other reasons | 289 (33.1) |
| No contact | 299 (34.2) |
| Respondent reading behaviour and preferences | |
| Respondent reading behaviour | |
| Read all four issues† | 466 (47.1) |
| Read all or almost all of each issue‡ | 747 (79.0) |
| Respondents regularly read the following sections§,¶ | |
| Case summaries | 927 (99.3) |
| Expert commentary | 916 (98.0) |
| Editorial | 821 (88.1) |
| Resources list | 525 (56.6) |
| Use of the Clinical Communiqué‡,¶ | |
| I read it as soon as it arrives | 802 (84.9) |
| I encourage my colleagues to read it | 681 (72.1) |
| I refer to it in my job | 407 (43.1) |
| I use it as a teaching aid | 590 (62.4) |
| Number of people with access to the Clinical Communiqué‡,** | |
| Only myself | 441 (46.7) |
| One other person | 53 (5.6) |
| 3 to 5 other people | 124 (13.1) |
| 6 to 10 other people | 85 (9.0) |
| 11 to 20 other people | 73 (7.7) |
| 21 to 30 other people | 62 (6.6) |
| More than 31 other people | 107 (11.3) |
* One hundred and thirty-five respondents failed to answer this question and were not included in the analysis (n=873).
† Nineteen respondents failed to answer this question and were not included in the analysis (n=989).
‡ Sixty-three respondents failed to answer this question and were not included in the analysis (n=945).
§ The number of respondents varies for this question (n=934, 935, 932, 928) respectively.
¶ Five-point Likert scale, 5=strongly agree to 1=strongly disagree. Positive responses are counted as the sum of responses that stated ‘strongly agree’ and ‘agree’.
** The reach of the Clinical Communiqué was calculated from these results. The lower (28 575) and upper ranges (30 958) were determined by multiplying the number of respondents with the extremes of their response. Respondents who answered ‘more than 31 other people’ to this question were given an option to provide the actual number and where available, this response was used in the calculation
NB. Because of rounding not all percentages cumulatively sum to 100