Physician privacy concerns when disclosing patient data for public health purposes during a pandemic influenza outbreak

Table 1 Descriptive summary of the responses on the type of information that the physicians would be willing to share.

	Information to Share	Mean	Std. Dev.
A1	Patient's first name	2.8	2
A2	Patient's surname	2.5	2
A3	Patient's initials	4.3	2.3
A4	Patient's sex	6.6	0.6
A5	Patient's full date of birth	4.2	2.3
A6	Patient's full postal code	4.8	2.5
A7	Indication of whether the patient is pregnant	6.2	1.3
A8	Patient's diabetes history	5.7	1.7
A9	Patient's asthma history	5.7	1.7
A10	Patient's COPD history	5.7	1.7
A11	Patient's CHF history	5.7	1.7
A12	Your practice postal code	6.2	1.4
A13	Your name	5.22	2.1
A14	Total number of active patients in the practice	5.7	1.7
A15	Total number of patients seen during the reporting period	6.2	1.3

A score of 1 means "not willing to share", a score of 7 means "very willing to share", and neutral value was coded as 4

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