Improvement Research Priorities: USA Survey and Expert Consensus

Table 3

Frequency (%) with which survey scale descriptors were used to rate 33 improvement topics (by 560 respondents).

Survey scale descriptor	Mean %	Median %	Min–max % (range)
Very important	51	48	28–74 (46)
Important	36	36	21–46 (25)
Somewhat important	12	12	2–27 (25)
Not important	1	1	0–5 (5)
COMBINED (important and very important)	87	87	68–98 (30)