Table 4 Reasons for NOT asking patients about their socioeconomic circumstances

 Socioeconomic enquiries will conflict with clinical tasks

[121]

 Socioeconomic enquiries will overburden clinicians

[117, 121]

 Socioeconomic enquiries might foster patient distrust

[118]

 Data collection would be of poor quality, especially among deprived groups

[116,117,118]

 Existing sources of socioeconomic information are adequate

[115, 117,118,119]

 Social health determinants lay outside the remit of the medical profession

[100, 120, 121]