Table 6.
Partial Correlations (r) Between Perceptions of Quick Medical Reference (QMR) and Physicians' Performance on Cases with Different Characteristics
| Type of Case | Correlations of Perception and Performance Scores |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Accuracy |
Relevance |
Comprehensiveness |
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| Usefulness | Confidence | Usefulness | Confidence | Usefulness | Confidence | |
| Difficult | -0.09 | -0.14 | -0.28* | 0.17 | 0.12 | -0.23 |
| Easy | -0.10 | 0.12 | -0.29* | 0.20 | 0.15 | -0.06 |
| High information quality | -0.07 | -0.02 | -0.21 | 0.09 | 0.25 | -0.20 |
| Low information quality | -0.13 | 0.03 | -0.26* | 0.16 | 0.03 | -0.04 |
| Difficult, high quality | -0.05 | -0.11 | -0.24 | 0.03 | 0.17 | -0.24 |
| Difficult, low quality | 0.02 | -0.09 | -0.19 | 0.24 | -0.03 | 0.09 |
| Easy, high quality | -0.02 | 0.03 | -0.26* | 0.29* | 0.09 | -0.13 |
| Easy, low quality | -0.20 | 0.16 | -0.21 | 0.09 | 0.12 | 0.02 |
| Total | -0.14 | -0.04 | -0.31* | 0.13 | 0.15 | -0.16 |