Part I, Patient perspective: activating patients to engage their providers in the use of evidence-based medicine: a qualitative evaluation of the VA Project to Implement Diuretics (VAPID)

Table 3 Patients' motivation for bringing in letter

	(N = 45)^
Motivation for patient bringing letter to appointment
Military/VA culture*	17 (37.8%)
Information seeking	12 (26.7%)
Changed patients' receptiveness to antihypertensive	2 (4.4%)
Just did it	4 (8.9%)
Other	6 (13.3%)
Did not bring in the letter	4 (8.9%)

Nine participants did not have complete question/response pairs (participant was not asked the question or did not directly answer it when asked).
*This category included the subcategories: following orders, 12 (70.6%); and serving others, 5 (29.4%).

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