Table 5 |
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Attitude of primary doctors to reporting of communicable disease in Taiwan, 2006 |
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Questions |
Total subjects (n = 1093) |
Among subjects with diagnosis experiences of reportable diseases (n = 406) |
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Numbers (%) of the agreed |
Numbers (%) of the agreed among subjects who did report (n = 340) |
Numbers (%) of the agreed among subjects who did not report (n = 66) |
p value* |
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a. If you know the disease is reportable and there is a easy and convenient method to report, you are willing to report |
1088 (99.5) |
339 (99.5) |
66 (100.0) |
0.66 |
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b. Reporting communicable diseases is one of the public health responsibilities of a doctor |
1084 (99.2) |
337 (99.1) |
66 (100.0) |
0.44 |
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c. It would be helpful to the safety of your practice if communicable disease reporting could be comprehensively completed by every doctor. |
1065 (97.4) |
332 (97.6) |
63 (95.5) |
0.32 |
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d. Reporting communicable diseases has been an important emphasis in your previous medical training |
989 (90.5) |
318 (93.5) |
54 (81.8) |
0.00 |
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e. A patient is less likely to be reported if his or her diagnosis is difficulty to be confirmed. |
946 (86.6) |
282 (82.9) |
63 (95.5) |
0.01 |
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f. Failing to report suspected cases is against the law. |
903 (82.6) |
281 (82.6) |
48 (72.7) |
0.06 |
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g. If you are too busy to report, you would ask the nurse in the clinic to assist you in reporting. |
895 (81.9) |
292 (85.9) |
44 (66.7) |
0.00 |
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h. A good reward system will increase your willingness to report |
870 (79.6) |
261 (76.8) |
59 (89.4) |
0.02 |
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i. Most local medical doctors respect the importance of reporting communicable diseases |
833 (76.2) |
257 (75.6) |
36 (54.5) |
0.00 |
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j. You are less likely to report if the disease is less severe |
659 (60.3) |
184 (54.1) |
53 (80.3) |
0.00 |
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k. Penalty for not reporting will increase your willingness to report |
618 (56.5) |
186 (54.7) |
47 (71.2) |
0.01 |
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l. Reporting communicable diseases without the consent of patients will violate their privacy |
436 (39.9) |
151 (44.4) |
40 (60.6) |
0.02 |
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m. You are usually too busy to report communicable diseases. |
253 (23.1) |
77 (22.6)a |
28 (42.4) |
0.00 |
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n. Reporting communicable diseases is time consuming and should not be done by hasty doctors |
245 (22.4) |
71 (20.9) |
28 (42.4) |
0.00 |
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*x2 test between reporting and non-reporting doctors. |
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Tan et al. BMC Infectious Diseases 2009 9:11 doi:10.1186/1471-2334-9-11 |
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