A qualitative examination of primary care providers' and physician managers' uses and views of research evidence

Medicine & Life Sciences

• Primary Care Physicians 100%
• Intuition 88%
• Physicians 59%
• Decision Making 51%
• Primary Health Care 49%
• Group Practice 43%
• Delivery of Health Care 38%
• Negotiating 37%
• Evidence-Based Medicine 35%
• Community Hospital 34%
• Pediatricians 32%
• Biomedical Research 31%
• Health 30%
• Focus Groups 30%
• General Practitioners 28%
• Motivation 25%
• Health Care Outcome Assessment 20%
• Costs and Cost Analysis 19%
• Child 13%
• Therapeutics 5%

Social Sciences

• physician 71%
• manager 66%
• clinician 62%
• examination 54%
• evidence 39%
• trustworthiness 23%
• intuition 22%
• health care delivery system 14%
• management decision 13%
• group practice 13%
• health plan 12%
• Group 12%
• medical research 11%
• medicine 7%
• society 7%
• decision making 6%
• expert 6%
• costs 5%
• responsibility 5%
• health 4%
• literature 4%