Table 2.
Relationship between overall support for a national EHR system and views about the use of EHRs for personal health care, health services planning and policy, and health research, with Chi square (χ 2 ) tests used to test for statistical significance (N=2857).
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Support for a national EHR system | ||||||
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Yes n (%) |
Undecided n (%) |
No n (%) |
Total n (%) |
χ 2 | P | |
| Personal health care | |||||||
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Complete record | 1484 (83.14) | 373 (46.74) | 50 (18.25) | 1907 (66.75) |
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Partial record | 268 (15.01) | 323 (40.48) | 65 (23.72) | 656 (22.96) |
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Neither record | 33 (1.84) | 102 (12.78) | 159 (58.03) | 294 (10.29) |
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Total | 1785 (100.00) | 798 (100.00) | 274 (100.00) | 2857 (100.00) | 1107 | <.001 |
| Health services planning and policy | |||||||
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With identifiers | 451 (25.27) | 96 (12.03) | 20 (7.30) | 567 (19.85) |
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Without identifiers | 1165 (65.27) | 461 (57.77) | 81 (29.56) | 1707 (59.75) |
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Neither record | 169 (9.47) | 241 (30.20) | 173 (63.14) | 583 (20.41) |
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Total | 1785 (100.00) | 798 (100.00) | 274 (100.00) | 2857 (100.00) | 511 | <.001 |
| Health research | |||||||
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With identifiers | 338 (18.94) | 62 (7.77) | 8 (2.92) | 408 (14.28) |
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Without identifiers | 1279 (71.65) | 538 (67.42) | 100 (36.50) | 1917 (67.10) |
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Neither record | 168 (9.41) | 198 (24.81) | 166 (60.58) | 532 (18.62) |
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Total | 1785 (100.00) | 798 (100.00) | 274 (100.00) | 2857 (100.00) | 467 | <.001 |