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Table 3 Percentage of respondents aware of CHD risk assessment tools who agree with the given statements regarding global CHD risk assessment (N = 873)

From: Use of global coronary heart disease risk assessment in practice: a cross-sectional survey of a sample of U.S. physicians

 

All

Family Physicians

General Internists

Cardiologists

P- value*

 

%

%

%

%

 

I find global CHD risk calculation useful (n = 834)

83.8

85.6

80.9

84.0

0.33

Global CHD risk calculation wastes time (n = 811)

18.7

17.1

18.3

21.4

0.40

Global CHD risk calculation improves patient care (n = 825)

80.9

82.8

80.6

78.5

0.41

Global CHD risk calculation leads to better decisions about whether or not to recommend therapies to prevent heart disease events (n = 819)

81.1

82.8

82.8

77.3

0.19

Global CHD risk calculation increases the likelihood that I will recommend risk-reducing therapies to prevent heart disease

(n = 809)

71.2

73.5

73.7

65.9

0.08

  1. CHD = coronary heart disease
  2. *Overall p-values based on Pearson's chi squared test for significance between specialty groups