How the Most Trusted Venues for Health-Related Information Influence Physician Referrals to Smoking Cessation Services

Table 3

Physicians use of health-related information venue^a—DocStyles Survey, 2008.

	Venue
Characteristics	Medical journals			Government health agency			Other physicians			Professional medical societies			Medical web sites/podcasts
	𝑁	%	95% CI	𝑁	%	95% CI	𝑁	%	95% CI	𝑁	%	95% CI	𝑁	%	95% CI
Gender
Men	1,065	95.6	94.2–96.7	898	80.6^d	78.2–82.8	842	75.6	73.0–78.0	869	78.0^d	75.5–80.3	699	62.7^d	59.9–65.6
Women	481	95.6	93.4–97.1	439	87.3	84.1–89.9	393	78.1	74.3–81.5	347	69.0	64.8–72.9	366	72.8	68.7–76.5
Age (y)
18–35	320	97.9	95.6–99.0	269	82.3	77.7–86.0	247	75.5	70.6–79.9	239	73.1	68.0–77.6	217	66.4	61.1–71.3
36–45	602	94.5^c	92.4–96.0	522	81.9	78.8–84.7	486	76.3	72.8–79.4	484	76.0	72.5–79.1	442	69.4	65.7–72.8
46–55	430	95.1^c	92.7–96.8	380	84.1	80.4–87.2	347	76.8	72.6–80.4	338	74.8	70.6–78.6	284	62.8^c	58.3–67.2
56+	194	96.5	92.9–98.3	166	82.6	76.7–87.2	155	77.1	70.8–82.4	155	77.1	70.8–82.4	122	60.7c	53.8–67.2
Race/ethnicity
Non-Hispanic white	1,135	96.3	95.9–97.2	990	84.0	81.8–86.0	918	77.9	75.4–80.1	911	77.3	74.8–79.4	751	63.7	60.9–66.4
Non-Hispanic black	45	93.8	82.3–98.0	43	89.6	77.3–95.6	31^b	64.6	50.2–76.7	34^b	70.8	56.6–81.9	32^b	66.7	52.3–78.5
Hispanic	62	89.9	80.2–95.1	51	73.9^c	62.3–82.9	52	75.4	63.9–84.1	46^b	66.7	54.8–76.7	50	72.5	60.8–81.7
Non-Hispanic Asian	236	95.2	91.7–97.2	195	78.6^c	73.1–83.3	180	72.6	66.7–77.8	173	69.8^c	63.8–75.2	186	75.0^c	69.2–80.0
Non-Hispanic other	68	93.2	84.6–97.1	58	79.5	68.7–87.2	54	74.0	62.7–82.7	52	71.2	59.9–80.4	46^b	63.0	51.4–73.3
Total	1,546	95.6	94.5–96.5	1,337	82.7	80.8–89.9	1,235	76.4	74.2–78.4	1,216	75.2	73.0–72.0	1,065	65.9	63.5–68.1

^aPhysicians reported using health-related information venues: medical journals, government health agencies, other physicians, professional medical societies, and medical web sites or podcasts sometimes, often, or regularly (from a list of 16).
^bInterpretation may be limited as sample size is <50.
^cSignificant at𝑃<.05.
^dSignificant at𝑃<.001.