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Table 4 Responses to the item ‘Plain film imaging (x-ray) is helpful in the detection of vertebral subluxations’ (survey question 6). The first column presents the proportion of respondents who answered ‘Strongly Agree’ (SA) or ‘Agree’ (A). The middle column presents the proportion of respondents who answered ‘Neutral’ (N). The third column presents the combination of respondents in the first and second columns (SA + A + N). See Discussion for interpretation of these proportions

From: Associations between demographics and clinical ideology, beliefs, and practice patterns: a secondary analysis of a survey of randomly sampled United States chiropractors

Chiropractic degree program of graduation

Proportion of respondents

Lower Limit

SA + A

N

Upper Limit

SA + A + N

Cleveland College of Chiropractic – Kansas City

53.8%

21.7%

75.5%

Cleveland College of Chiropractic – Los Angeles

52.1%

31.3%

83.3%

Life University

70.6%

17.3%

87.8%

Life University West

51.7%

29.2%

80.9%

Logan University

45.2%

23.2%

68.4%

National University of Health Sciences

38.7%

25.0%

63.7%

New York Chiropractic College

36.5%

24.0%

60.5%

Northwestern University of Health Sciences

53.3%

24.4%

77.8%

Palmer College of Chiropractic – Iowa

67.8%

16.6%

84.4%

Palmer College of Chiropractic – Florida

51.3%

20.5%

71.8%

Palmer College of Chiropractic – West

43.6%

20.2%

63.8%

Parker University

54.9%

23.5%

78.4%

Southern California University of Health Sciences

45.1%

19.4%

64.6%

Sherman College of Chiropractic

71.2%

19.7%

90.9%

Texas Chiropractic College

57.6%

18.8%

76.5%

University of Bridgeport

25.6%

23.1%

48.7%

University of Western States

28.4%

18.7%

47.1%

Average total response proportion

53.4%

20.9%

74.3%