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. 2016 Oct 12;5(1):1779. doi: 10.1186/s40064-016-3454-0

Table 2.

Resources used by medical students to learn about antimicrobial use and resistance, percentage reporting resource used sometimes/often

Resource Sometimes/often (%) P valueb
N = 605
Textbooks or study guides 80.2 0.012a
Peers (other students) 57.7 0.016a
Wikipedia 52.1 0.001a
iPhone/smartphone applications 50.5 0.489
Non-ID physicians 38.0 0.672
Infectious diseases specialists 27.0 0.322
Hospital pharmacists 22.1 0.031a
Medical journals 19.7 <0.001a
Other guidelines by professional organizations 17.3 0.726
Pharmaceutical representatives 13.6 0.241
Johns Hopkins Antibiotic Guide 11.5 0.626
Infectious Diseases Society of America guidelines 10.6 0.922
Sanford guide 8.6 0.206

aP < 0.05 refers to statistical differences in the percentages of different teaching hospitals

bχ2 test