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Table 2 Total radiation knowledge score by respondent group

From: Clinicians’ justification of imaging: do radiation issues play a role?

 

N

Mean score

SD

General practitioners

77

31.0

8.4

Hospital physicians

71

32.3

9.4

 Surgeons

13

34.2

10.3

 Internists

19

37.0

11.6

 Neurologists

10

24.9

4.6

 Orthopaedics

12

31.4

5.3

 Paediatricians

13

30.9

8.4

 Rheumatologists

4

29.5

5.2

Non-physicians

65

27.7

6.7

 Manual physiotherapists

55

27.3

6.4

 Chiropractors

10

30.3

8.4

  1. Mean score was significantly different among general practitioners, hospital physicians and non-physicians: p = 0.03, multiple linear regression analysis