Attitudes toward inter-hospital electronic patient record exchange: discrepancies among physicians, medical record staff, and patients

Table 4 Means of the attitude toward supporting the promotion of inter-hospital EPR exchange among users; multivariate GLM test (controlling for all other variables, total n = 379)

Variables ^d	Physician ^a		Medical record staff ^b		Patient ^c
	(n = 155)		(n = 28)		(n = 196)
	Mean	P	Mean	P	Mean	P
Personal Characteristics
Gender		0.171		0.021^*		0.237
Male	3.618		4.822		4.426
Female	3.904		3.692		4.559
Age		0.034^*		0.018^*		0.109
≦25			3.533		3.951
26-35	3.437		4.887		3.973
36-45 (≧36 for medical record staff)	3.296		4.350		4.027
46-55	4.542				4.097
56-64	3.844				4.049
≧65					4.372
Experience of computer use		0.521		0.498		0.029^*
Never or <1 year			4.093		3.367
1-3 years (≦3 years for physician)	3.451		4.158		3.777
4-6 years (≦6 years for medical record staff)	3.779		4.520		4.139
7-9 years	3.857				4.097
≧10 years	3.956				3.987
Occupation						0.015^*
Industry or commerce					4.129
Government or education					4.279
Healthcare					3.866
Service					4.186
Student					3.990
Other					3.627
Number of outpatient visit in the past three months						0.046^*
0					3.832
1					3.986
2-5					4.067
≧6					4.350
Work Characteristics
Level of hospital		0.006^**
Medical center	4.022
Regional hospital	3.500
Human Aspects
Reason to use EMR		0.024^*
Convenient to access medical information	4.161
Useful for work	4.122
Not prefer handwriting	3.980
EMR is mandatory	3.550
No use and no benefit	2.870
Other	3.995
Level of concerns		0.010^*		0.574		<0.001^***
Low	3.889		4.042		3.655
High	3.468		4.298		4.227
Technology Aspects
Usefulness of functions		0.004^**		0.589		0.407
Low	3.458		4.048		4.077
High	3.937		4.292		3.966
Major information source of this EPR						0.049^*
Friend or colleague					4.255
Internet					3.964
Government institution					3.757
Relative					4.426
Hospital					3.920
Other					4.192
Never heard of					3.910

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