Dear all

We are undertaking a study of clinical decision making in thrombolysis in acute stroke, and seeking to understand (amongst other things) clinician-related factors that may influence decision making. There have been recent debates in the literature about the evidence. We want to get a measure from each clinician of their personal view on the strength of the evidence, but haven’t been able to find a published measure that we could use. We are thinking of something like a Likert scale with a question such as “How strong do you think the evidence is for the effectiveness of thrombolysis in improving outcome in acute ischaemic stroke”, but before taking this route, is anyone aware of any study that has used a question to assess perceptions of strength of evidence for a specific intervention that we could adopt/adapt?

Many thanks in advance

Best wishes
Richard

Richard Thomson
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