Table 3.
Impact of Guidelines, Clinical Text, and Decision Support on Prescribing Decisions
| Information Support Categories |
One-way ANOVA |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| None (Control) | Guidelines | Laboratory Report | DSS + Laboratory Report | df | F | p | |
| Case scenarios/information support combinations presented | 62 | 62 | 62 | 62 | |||
| Information support features used, n (%) | 62 + 89 = 151* | 24 (39) | 36 (58) | 37 (60) | |||
| Agreement with the expert panel, n | 98 | 16 | 28 | 36 | NA | ||
| % (95% CI) | 65 (57–73) | 67 (48–87) | 78 (65–91) | 97 (92–100)† | |||
| Confident or highly confident of prescribing decision, n | 103 | 18 | 28 | 27 | 3,247 | 0.09 | 0.966 |
| % (95% CI) | 68 (61–75) | 75 (58–92) | 78 (65–91) | 73 (59–87) | |||
| Time taken (seconds per case) | |||||||
| Mean | 113 | 202 | 123 | 245 | 3,247 | 16.03 | < 0.001 |
| Median | 83 | 117 | 115 | 202 | |||
| SD | 84 | 116 | 52 | 170 | |||