Research Article
Physicians’ Perceptions and Adherence to Guidelines for the Management of Hypertension: A National, Multicentre, Prospective Study
Table 6
Physicians’ characteristics and level of physicians’ adherence to European guidelines.
| | | Level of agreement (%)
Mean (95% CI) | Medication guideline (%)
Mean (95% CI) | Lifestyle guideline (%)
Mean (95% CI) |
| | Gender | | | | | Male | 69.0 (63.2–74.9) | 68.6 (61.6–75.6)* | 63.7 (48.2–79.2) | | Female | 73.5 (65.6–81.4) | 80.8 (73.3–88.2) | 53.4 (32.8–74.0) | | Specialty | | | | | Cardiologists | 67.8 (61.5–74.1) | 69.0 (61.5–76.4)* | 52.4 (32.9–71.8) | | GPs | 78.4 (70.0–86.9) | 83.8 (76.5–91.0) | 67.3 (46.9–87.7) | | Internists | 66.6 (54.2–79.1) | 67.1 (51.1–83.1) | 63.3 (33.2–93.5) | | Hospital type | | | | | Public sector | 74.3 (68.3–80.3) | 79.2 (72.5–85.9)* | 53.5 (35.2–71.9) | | Private sector | 67.4 (60.0–74.9) | 66.4 (57.9–74.9) | 67.4 (49.5–85.3) | | Years of experience among specialists | | | | | More than 10 years | 69.5 (63.9–75.1) | 74.2 (67.2–81.1) | 61.9 (44.6–79.1) | | Less than 10 years | 72.4 (64.5–80.2) | 72.2 (63.0–81.3) | 58.7 (39.5–77.9) | | Further education | | | | | None | 71.2 (65.8–76.7) | 74.1 (67.9–80.3) | 57.2 (43.1–71.3) | | MSc or PhD | 67.8 (57.8–77.7) | 66.6 (55.6–77.6) | 71.3 (45.1–97.4) | | Physicians’ opinion: guidelines are useful in practice | | | | | No | 65.7 (55.1–76.3) | 65.0 (53.2–76.7) | 63.1 (38.0–88.3) | | Yes | 72.4 (67.3–77.5) | 75.8 (69.8–81.7) | 57.9 (43.6–72.2) | | Physicians’ opinion: guidelines are helpful in effective management | | | | | No | 71.0 (63.3–78.7) | 76.7 (69.3–84.2) | 52.5 (33.5–71.4) | | Yes | 70.3 (64.3–76.3) | 70.4 (63.0–77.8) | 63.2 (47.1–79.3) | | Physicians’ opinion: positive general attitude | | | | | No | 72.4 (63.5–81.2) | 68.7 (57.6–79.8) | 73.1 (49.3–96.9) | | Yes | 69.9 (64.4–75.5) | 74.0 (67.8–80.4) | 54.6 (40.2–68.9) | | ESH guidelines self-reported awareness | | | | | No | 67.8 (59.7–75.8) | 73.5 (64.2–82.7) | 51.3 (33.0–69.7) | | Yes | 72.6 (70.0–78.2) | 72.2 (65.5–78.9) | 65.1 (48.5–81.7) | | Number of local conferences | | | | | <5 | 66.2 (58.4–74.1) | 66.0 (55.7–76.4)* | 64.0 (45.3–82.6) | | >5 | 73.2 (67.4–79.0) | 76.9 (71.0–82.7) | 56.4 (40.0–73.1) | | Number of international conferences | | | | | <5 | 69.6 (64.4–74.8) | 72.0 (65.7–78.3) | 58.7 (44.6–72.9) | | >5 | 73.4 (62.4–84.3) | 74.9 (63.9–85.9) | 61.8 (35.0–88.6) |
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GP: general practitioner; *.
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