Figure 2
From: Use of and attitudes towards the prescribing guidelines booklet in primary health care doctors
Doctors' attitudes towards the prescribing guidelines booklet vary between different types of organizations. Doctors' agreement in the statements: (A) I trust the recommended drug list to reflect sound judgments concerning effects and safety, (B) I trust the recommended drug list to reflect sound judgments concerning cost-effectiveness, (C) When I adhere to the recommended drug list, I do it to attain evidence-based prescribing concerning effects and safety, (D) When I adhere to the recommended drug list, I do it because it is required by the health care system, (E) When I adhere to the recommended drug list, I do it to attain sound health economics in the community. (F) I refrain from changing a not recommended drug to a recommended one due to experience of misuse of the drug by the patient (due to the patient's misunderstanding), (G) I refrain from changing a not recommended drug to a recommended one due to the risk of misuse of the drug by the patient (due to the patient's misunderstanding), (H) The prescribing guidelines, and activities aiming at visualizing adherence to it (such as outreach visits of pharmacists presenting prescribing statistics for the particular primary health care unit), trespass the freedom of the profession. The responder was to grade his level of agreement from 1 (totally disagreement) to 6 (totally agreement). Black bar denotes publicly run unit, white bar denotes privately run unit and grey bar denotes business of one's own. Arithmetic mean and median, respectively, are presented in the following order throughout the figure: publicly run unit; privately run unit; business of one's own. Kruskal-Wallis test was used for comparisons between groups.