Table 2.

Project members’ perceived differences in the beliefs of researchers/clinicians versus IT members about EHR IT

Misconception (1)		Reality (10)	Researchers/clinicians* mean (SD)	HIT team* mean (SD)	Diff. mean (SD)	p-value
EHR IT is a single group	↔	EHR IT consists of multiple, specialized groups	2.76 (3.10)	9.50 (0.53)	6.39 (2.99)	0.003
All EHR IT members know the entire EHR functionality	↔	EHR IT members specialize more in some parts of the functionality than others	3.66 (2.38)	9.05 (0.91)	5.16 (2.59)	0.005
Changes to an EHR need the input of just a single EHR IT member	↔	Changes to an EHR need the input of many EHR IT members	4.76 (2.55)	9.37 (0.60)	4.63 (2.86)	0.01
The technological complexity of a project mirrors the clinical complexity (e.g., if the workflow is simple, IT build will be simple)	↔	The technological complexity of a project often differs from the clinical complexity	3.39 (3.00)	7.35 (2.86)	4.88 (4.16)	0.03†

^*The value represents the distance (cm) from the left end of the 10-cm visual analog scale, where the left end was the misconception and the right end the reality as identified by the researchers.

^†When physician informaticists were excluded from analysis, the difference was no longer significant (p= 0.09).