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. 2019 Nov 11;2:110. doi: 10.1038/s41746-019-0183-0

Table 3.

Accuracy of patient generated pre-visit differential diagnosis compared with clinician differential, by (A) Proportion of matched diagnoses and (B) Odds ratios (95% CI) for matched diagnoses between groups

A
Diagnostic accuracy (%) Overall (n = 300) Google search (n = 100) HFD (n = 99) No search (n = 101) p-value
Primary outcome (≥2/3 matched) 79 (26.3) 27 (27.0) 28 (28.3) 24 (23.8) 0.76
Sensitivity analysis
3/3 matched 6 (2.0) 3 (3.0) 2 (2.0) 1 (1.0) 0.62
≥1 matched 223 (74.3) 80 (80.0) 71 (71.7) 72 (71.3) 0.28
B
Diagnostic accuracy (Odds ratio (95% CI) Search groupa (n = 199) p-value Google searchb (n = 100) p-value
Primary outcome (≥2/3 matched) 1.23 (0.70–2.13) 0.47 0.94 (0.50–1.75) 0.84
Sensitivity analysis
3/3 matched 2.58 (0.30–22.36) 0.39 1.50 (0.25–9.18) 0.66
≥1 matched 1.27 (0.74–2.17) 0.39 1.58 (0.82–3.04) 0.17

Search group = Google + HFD

acompared to No Search group (ref. 1)

bcompared to HFD group (ref. 1)