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Results of the CMA 2003 Physician Resource Questionnaire

The results of the 2003 Physician Resource Questionnaire are in table format. Individual tables can be downloaded (PDF) from the list below. To download a single file containing all tables, click here.

Information Technology

• Personal Digital Assistant use
• Referring patients to medical web sites
• Patients presenting medical information obtained on the Internet
• Practices with Web sites
• Personal Internet use
• Internet use by main location
• Internet access at the office or clinical practice
• Internet use in clinical practice
• Internet tools and sources of information used in clinical practice
• Barriers to the use of the Internet in clinical practice
• Incentives to the use of the Internet in clinical practice

Monthly On-Call Activities

• Call
• Shared call hours
• Shared call responsibilities
• Call type
• Payment for call
• Payment for the service of being on call
• Compensation for medical services provided while on call
• On-call patients
• Time spent providing medical services while on call

Professional Activities, Practice Setting, and Remuneration

• Hours worked per week
• Change to workload
• Practice setting
• Nature of group practice
• Remuneration
• Remuneration preferences
• Change to overhead expenses
• Change to net professional income

Pharmaceuticals

• Patients requesting advertised drugs
• Impact of drug requests on doctor-patient relationship
• Approaches to mass-media dissemination of pharmaceutical information
• Drug formularies

Marital Status