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Table 4 Use of Electronic Health Record (EHR) during the first ten minutes of consultation pre and post-training

From: Learning to use electronic health records: can we stay patient-centered? A pre-post intervention study with family medicine residents

Overall EHR use

All consultations (n = 142)

 

Pre (n = 73)

Post (n = 69)

 
 

Mean (SD)

Mean (SD)

p

EHR Signposting

0.77 (1.69)

1.80 (3.35)

0.04

 

All utterances (n = 29011)

 
 

Pre (n = 15181) n (%)

Post (n = 13830) n (%)

p

EHR total usea

4237 (27.9)

4207 (30.4)

<0.01

 • With linka

3215 (21.2)

3180 (23)

<0.01

 • Without linka

800 (5.3)

726 (5.3)

0.96

Medical condition and therapeutic regimenb

1232 (28.5)

1322 (30.6)

0.04

Medical condition (without counseling)b

774 (29.8)

790 (31.8)

0.12

Therapeutic regimen (without counseling)b

458 (26.6)

532 (28.9)

0.14

Lifestyle and psychosocialb

307 (24.8)

114 (15.3)

<0.01

Lifestyle (without counseling)b

99 (25.5)

62 (24.8)

0.91

Psychosocial (without counseling)b

208(24.5)

52 (10.5)

<0.01

Positive talkb

821 (25.1)

871 (29.7)

<0.01

Emotional talkb

92 (21.2)

97 (25.5)

0.18

Partnershipb

697 (25)

745 (27)

0.10

  1. a% calculated with numbers of utterances while using EHR/all utterances
  2. b% calculated with number of utterances per RIAS category while using EHR/number of utterances per RIAS category