Informs patients of major implications of diagnosis and treatment | 50–85% of time | 8.5% | | | |
| 90% | 15.5 | | | |
| 95% | 19.7 | | | |
| 97–99% | 19.7 | | | |
| 100% of time | 36.6 | | | |
How often make exceptions to rule on informing | 0% (never) | 36.8% | | | |
| 1% of time | 14.7 | | | |
| 2–5% | 22.0 | | | |
| 10% | 17.6 | | | |
| 15–95% of time | 8.8 | | | |
| | Top 5/ | First | Top 5/ | First |
Factors most commonly included in top 5 which may influence decision to inform patient | Emotional stability | 51% | 11% | 74% | 30% |
| Improve compliance | 44 | 4 | 53 | 6 |
| Age | 33 | 24 | 30 | 15 |
| Patient requests diagnosis | 33 | 8 | 62 | 20 |
| Prognosis | 28 | 3 | 45 | 2 |
| Acceptance of therapy | 24 | 6 | 47 | 5 |
| Medical sophistication | 24 | 4 | 9 | 2 |
| Harmful to outcome | 19 | 3 | 18 | 2 |
| Length of survival | 14 | 1 | 26 | 3 |
How did you acquire strategy for dealing with informing patients (% ranking in top 7) | Other | 45.8% | | | |
| Clinical training | 13.9 | | | |
| Medical school | 12.5 | | | |
| Personal factors | 8.3 | | | |
| Experience | 8.3 | | | |
| Family, friends | 2.8 | | | |
| Commonly accepted | 1.4 | | | |
Received formal training in medical ethics | Yes | 41% | 46% |
How likely is strategy of informing patients to change | No possibility | 9% | | | |
| Very unlikely | 30 | | | |
| Unlikely | 30 | | | |
| Probably | 26 | | | |
| Certainly | 6 | | | |
Interested in participating in structured discussion of this topic | Yes | 52% | 79% |
If you were a patient, would you want to be fully informed | Yes | 100% | 100% |
When patient's death is expected outcome, you feel that (ranked first) | Best therapeutic alternatives have been followed | 86% | | | |
| Medical profession has failed this patient | 2 | | | |
| This is a personal failure | 4 | | | |
| None ranked | 8 | | | |
Medical specialty (percentage of sample) | Internal medicine | 19.4% | | | |
| Surgery | 18.1 | | | |
| Neuropsychology | 9.7 | | | |
| Family practice | 8.3 | | | |
| Plastic surgery | 5.6 | | | |
| Cardiology | 4.2 | | | |
| Physical medicine | 4.2 | | | |
| Gastroenterology | 2.8 | | | |
| Pulmonary | 1.4 | | | |
| Unknown | 26.4 | | | |
Country of medical school | USA | 2% | | | |
| Other | 38 | | | |
Physician age | 29–40 | 31% | | | |
| 41–50 | 39 | | | |
| 51–60 | 19 | | | |
| Over 60 | 3 | | | |
| No answer | 8 | | | |