Table 4 Descriptive statistics on the items and concepts divided by education level and population size (n=186)
From: Evidence-based practice in primary healthcare from the managerial point of view – a national survey
Education | Population | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Short N=90 | Long N=66 | <500 000 N=80 | ≥500 000 N=57 | ||||
Percent (%) | p | Percent (%) | p | ||||
POLICY AND GUIDELINES | |||||||
Q1: Degree of impact of policy and guidelines on the organization | Large | 96.0 | 99.0 | 96.0 | 99.0 | ||
0.215 | 0.243 | ||||||
Q2: Impact of policies and guidelines on daily practice | Evident impact | 80.0 | 86.4 | 76.1 | 82.8 | ||
0.580 | 0.305 | ||||||
Q3: Own knowledge of where to find alternate decision support systems | Yes | 72.0 | 70 | 73.0 | 71.0 | ||
0.786 | 0.777 | ||||||
Q4: Co-workers’ knowledge of where to find alternate decision support systems | Yes | 72.0 | 72.0 | 70.0 | 76.0 | ||
0.999 | 0.394 | ||||||
CAPTURE | |||||||
Q7: Time spent on reworking or creating policy documents in order to unify practice. | Little | 33.0 | 39.0 | 33.0 | 37.0 | ||
0.441 | 0.594 | ||||||
Q8: Demands on evidence-based practice that impede on clinical practice. | Rarely | 74.0 | 59.0 | 77.0 | 81.0 | ||
0.049 | 0.536 | ||||||
Q9: Evaluation of evidence when implementing new treatments | Yes | 74.0 | 80.0 | 76.0 | 67.0 | ||
0.384 | 0.203 | ||||||
ACCESS | |||||||
Q10: Co-workers’ possibilities to research information in order to keep up to date. | Important | 94.0 | 95.0 | 94.0 | 97.0 | ||
0.789 | 0.370 | ||||||
Q11: Time spent on researching information about one’s own occupational topics. | ≤1 hour/week | 8.0 | 21.0 | 13.0 | 13.0 | ||
2-3 hours/week | 79.0 | 61.0 | 74.0 | 71.0 | |||
>3 hours/week | 13.0 | 18.0 | 13.0 | 16.0 | |||
0.054 | 0.912 | ||||||
MANAGEMENT | |||||||
Q5: Primary healthcare would gain based on faster adaptation to new evidence | Yes | 70.0 | 74.0 | 68.8 | 74.3 | ||
0.585 | 0.618 | ||||||
Q6: New thoughts and ideas about the work routine are stimulating. | Yes | 98.0 | 97.0 | 97.0 | 98.0 | ||