One questionnaire-based study revealed that physicians were less likely to offer advanced lung cancer treatments to patients who were smokers as compared with similar nonsmokers.
Family practice and general practice physicians were less likely than physicians who classified their specialty as internal medicine to answer both genetics questions correctly (OR = 0.8; 95% CI 0.65 0.95; OR = 0.5; 95% CI, 0.34 0.79).
Family practice and general practice physicians were less likely than physicians who classified their specialty as internal medicine to answer the treatment question correctly (OR = 0.6; 95% CI, 0.49 0.73; OR = 0.4; 95% CI, 0.24 0.58, respectively).
Family practice and general practice physicians were less likely than physicians who classified their specialty as internal medicine to answer the screening question correctly (OR = 0.7; 95% CI, 0.52 0.88; OR = 0.5; 95% CI, 0.27 0.74, respectively).
Family practice and general practice physicians were less likely than physicians who classified their specialty as internal medicine to answer all pathogenesis questions correctly (OR = 0.5; 95% CI, 0.35 0.52; OR = 0.6; 95% CI, 0.42 1.00, respectively).
WIC physicians were less satisfied than other physicians with their relations with patients.
Finally, primary care physicians were less likely to associate symptoms of profuse watery diarrhea with cryptosporidium infection compared with gastroenterologists and infectious disease specialists.
Foreign-born physicians were less likely to report such conflicts (47% vs 64% of US born, OR, 95% CI 0.5, 0.4 to 0.8).
