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J Am Med Inform Assoc 12:315-321 doi:10.1197/jamia.M1717
  • Original Investigation

Do Online Information Retrieval Systems Help Experienced Clinicians Answer Clinical Questions?

Table 6

Changes in Answers by Professional Groups (N = 557)*

Response Category Hospital Doctors (N = 187) Family Practitioners (N = 134) CNCs (N = 236)
Wrong Wrong 66 (35%) 47 (35%) 107 (45%)
Wrong Right 61 (33%) 34 (25%) 89 (38%)
Right Wrong 17 (9%) 8 (6%) 14 (6%)
Right Right 43 (23%) 45 (34%) 26 (11%)
  • CNCs = clinical nurse consultants.

  • * For 43 scenarios, no post-test information sources were recorded, and these cases are excluded from this table, which examines changes in the direction of pre- and post-test responses. These scenario responses were excluded because they did not meet the definition of a correct answer as specified in the Methods section, namely, the provision of an answer and an accompanying information source found using the online information system to support the answer.

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