Table 2.
Participants’ perceptions of the importance of resource factors with respect to general Web-based resources in a poststudy survey. Values are median ratings with interquartile range in parentheses, where 1 is not important at all and 5 is most important.
| Resource factor | Wikipedia group, median (IQRa) | UpToDate group, median (IQR) | Textbook group, median (IQR) | P value |
| Search function | 5.0 (1.0) | 5.0 (0) | 5.0 (0) | .06 |
| Hyperlinks | 4.0 (2.0) | 4.0 (2.0) | 4.0 (2.0) | .42 |
| References | 4.0 (1.0) | 3.0 (2.0) | 4.0 (2.0) | .44 |
| Open access editing | 2.0 (2.0) | 2.0 (2.0) | 2.0 (2.0) | .18 |
| Expert editing | 4.0 (1.0) | 4.0 (1.0) | 4.0 (1.0) | .82 |
aIQR: interquartile range.