Table 5:
Severity of Six Potential Barriers to Accessing Information in the EHR Ranked on a Likert-type scale from 1 (not a barrier) to 5 (severe barrier)
| POTENTIAL BARRIER | SPECIALTY Mean ± SD |
PRIMARY CARE Mean ± SD |
|---|---|---|
| “Information in the chart is inaccurate” | 2.94 ± 1.29 | 2.76 ± 1.24 |
| “Information I need is not in the chart” | 3.11 ± 1.24 | 2.98 ± 1.18 |
| “I can’t find it in the chart” | 3.23 ± 1.23 | 2.88 ± 1.28 |
| “Too much information” | 3.27 ± 1.31 | 3.20 ± 1.31 |
| “Information is poorly displayed/difficult to interpret” | 3.29 ± 1.20 | 3.00 ± 1.25 |
| “Other don’t record information consistently” | 3.38 ± 1.09 | 3.26 ± 1.13 |
SD=standard deviation