Attitudes towards clinical guidelines among and needs of 1568 health practitioners, China, 2016
| N (%) | |||||||||||
| Total | Profession | Professional title | Education | ||||||||
| Physician | Nurse | Practitioner from auxiliary department | Administrative staff | Primary | Intermediate | Senior | College and below | Bachelor’s | Master’s and above | ||
| Evaluation of the applicability of current guidelines to primary care practice (n=1442) | |||||||||||
| Entirely applicable | 339 (23.5) | 124 (23.4) | 69 (19.6) | 83 (26.9) | 63 (25.0) | 174 (26.4) | 110 (21.8) | 55 (19.8) | 137 (23.5) | 192 (23.4) | 10 (25.6) |
| Partially applicable | 1030 (71.4) | 377 (71.3) | 264 (75.0) | 212 (68.6) | 177 (70.2) | 448 (68.0) | 369 (73.1) | 213 (76.6) | 408 (70.1) | 596 (72.6) | 26 (66.7) |
| Inapplicable | 31 (2.2) | 14 (2.6) | 5 (1.4) | 5 (1.6) | 7 (2.8) | 17 (2.6) | 9 (1.8) | 5 (1.8) | 13 (2.2) | 15 (1.8) | 3 (7.7) |
| Unaware | 42 (2.9) | 14 (2.6) | 14 (4.0) | 9 (2.9) | 5 (2.0) | 20 (3.0) | 17 (3.4) | 5 (1.8) | 24 (4.1) | 18 (2.2) | 0 (0.0) |
| Sum | 1442 (100.0) | 529 (100.0) | 352 (100.0) | 309 (100.0) | 252 (100.0) | 659 (100.0) | 505 (100.0) | 278 (100.0) | 582 (100.0) | 821 (100.0) | 39 (100.0) |
| Necessity of developing clinical guidelines for primary care (n=1568) | |||||||||||
| Necessary | 1509 (96.2) | 559 (96.0) | 363 (96.5) | 323 (97.0) | 264 (95.3) | 685 (96.1) | 535 (96.1) | 289 (97.0) | 601 (96.0) | 866 (96.3) | 42 (97.7) |
| Unnecessary | 39 (2.6) | 14 (2.4) | 10 (2.7) | 5 (1.5) | 10 (3.6) | 18 (2.5) | 16 (2.9) | 5 (1.7) | 23 (3.7) | 15 (1.7) | 1 (2.3) |
| Do not care | 20 (1.3) | 9 (1.5) | 3 (0.8) | 5 (1.5) | 3 (1.1) | 10 (1.4) | 6 (1.1) | 4 (1.3) | 2 (0.3) | 18 (2.0) | 0 (0.0) |
| Sum | 1568 (100.0) | 582 (100.0) | 376 (100.0) | 333 (100.0) | 277 (100.0) | 713 (100.0) | 557 (100.0) | 298 (100.0) | 626 (100.0) | 899 (100.0) | 43 (100.0) |