Peering into the black box: a meta-analysis of how clinicians use decision aids during clinical encounters

Table 6 Compliant (>66%) in fidelity items in the first three consecutive encounters for clinicians who participated in included trials at least three times ^a

	Compliant in all encounters	Not compliant in any encounters (n = 5)	Compliant in at least one but not all encounters (n = 12)
	(n = 8)
	n (%)	n (%)	n (%)
*Clinician characteristics*
Type: Staff physician	5 (63)	3 (60)	7 (58)
Physician in training	3 (38)	1 (20)	3 (25)
Nurse or nurse practitioner	0	1 (20)	2 (17)
Female	3 (38)	1 (20)	4 (33)
*Patient characteristics from encounters*
Sex: Majority male	4 (50)	2 (40)	5 (42)
Majority female	4 (50)	3 (60)	7 (58)
Age, y: Majority <65	7 (87.5)	2 (40)	11 (92)
Majority ≥65	1 (12.5)	3 (60)	1 (8)
Education: majority college^b	5 (25)	3 (60)	10 (83)
Majority HS or less	3 (25)	2 (40)	2 (17)

Abbreviations: HS High School.
^aClinicians with at least 3 encounters (n = 25) were included, the first three encounters were evaluated for compliance to fidelity of 66% or more in each encounter.
^bCollege includes post-grad, four-year degree, two-year degree and vocational school.

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