Table 2.
Correlation among skill levels in the KAS book, frequency of use and priority
| Correlation coefficient between | |||||||
| Kind of respondent | Number ofdoctors | Skill level in KAS book and frequency score by doctors | Skill level in KAS book and priority score rated by doctors | Frequency score and priority score rated by doctors | |||
| n | r | n | r | n | r | ||
| All Doctors | 797 | 89622 | 0.17 | 89362 | 0.15 | 88978 | 0.53 |
| General Medicine | 274 | 30771 | 0.16 | 30727 | 0.14 | 30550 | 0.47 |
| Internal Medicine | 196 | 22061 | 0.13 | 21966 | 0.14 | 21892 | 0.56 |
| Surgery | 143 | 16141 | 0.30 | 16045 | 0.23 | 16011 | 0.61 |
| Public Health | 24 | 2268 | 0.06 | 2657 | 0.03* | 2647 | 0.52 |
| Others | 160 | 17981 | 0.11 | 17967 | 0.11 | 17878 | 0.52 |
* p = 0.13. All other p < 0.001