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The mean score on the 12 true/false knowledge statements was 3.8, and 17% (65/372) answered 'Don't know' to all the statements.
Physicians could not see how they did on the knowledge statements, they did not receive the answers to the knowledge statements immediately after completing the questionnaire.
In our study physicians answered on average 10 out of 14 knowledge statements correctly (71%).
The knowledge statements presented in this article can be freely used for research or training purposes.
After completing the knowledge statements, respondents were asked to again grade their own knowledge.
In Table 2 the answers to the knowledge statements are shown per specialty.
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As a result of this, the knowledge statement about opioid rotation in this study has two possible answers.
Post-hoc pairwise comparisons (analysis not shown) indicated that only knowledge statement (d) and confidence statement (a) were consistently different from all other statements (Tables 1 and 2).
Status quo experts also disagreed with the statement that knowledge of the general public is of less value to policymakers than expert knowledge (statement 17) and gave a neutral score to the statement that new policies should be entirely based on the best available scientific knowledge (statement 20).
The pro-science experts strongly agreed that new policies should be based entirely on the best available scientific knowledge (statement 20).
Second, the status quo experts disagreed on the viewpoint that the knowledge of citizens was of less value to policy makers than expert knowledge (statement 17), whereas the pro-science experts agreed.
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