| |
Any employee
|
Any physician
|
At-fault-physician
|
Manager of at-fault-physician
|
Medical director
|
Chief executive director
|
|---|
|
Preference [867]
|
16 (1.8)
|
105 (12.1)
|
518 (59.7)
|
133 (15.3)
|
54 (6.2)
|
41 (4.7)
|
|
Perception of Norm [878]
|
25 (2.8)
|
120 (13.7)
|
502 (57.2)
|
147 (16.7)
|
46 (5.2)
|
38 (4.3)
|
|
Perception of Practice [758]
|
74 (9.8)
|
238 (31.4)
|
258 (34.0)
|
99 (13.1)
|
43 (5.7)
|
46 (6.1)
|
- "Any employee", "any physician", "at-fault-physician", "manager of at-fault-physician", "medical director", and "chief executive director" correspond, respectively, to statements 1 to 6 in Table 1(b). Numbers between [·] represent the number of responses. Data indicate the number (%) of respondents who chose the corresponding statement. Chi square test for the null hypothesis of random distribution was significant (P < 0.001) for each of the three questionnaires. Kendall's W coefficient of concordance (comparing the choices in the 3 questionnaires) was 0.075 (P < 0.001). Wilcoxon signed ranks test: preference vs. perception of norm, P = 0.33; preference vs. perception of current practice, p < 0.001; perception of norm vs. perception of current practice, P < 0.001.
