Perceived barriers of heart failure nurses and cardiologists in using clinical decision support systems in the treatment of heart failure patients

Table 2 Summary of baseline characteristics perceived barriers in CDSS (N=162)

	Cardiologist		HF nurse			Total
*Characteristic*	(N=36)	SD	(N=126)	SD	P -value	(N=162)	SD
Age (mean),y	50	8	47	9	0.93	48	8
Female sex (%)	9(25)		102(82)		<0.01	111(68)
*Work region*					0.42
North	9		27			36
Middle	13		45			58
South	12		53			65
*Education*
University	34		5			39
Master			40			40
Applied science			86			86
Years of experience in current position (mean)	16	9	6	3	<0.01	8	6
Working hours per week with HF patients (mean)	11	10	21	8	<0.01	19	10
*Experience with computers*
Total in years	19	7	16	5	0.03	17	6
Operating systems	16	7	13	5	0.02	14	6
Software applications	16	6	12	5	0.01	13	6
Programming language
Email	13	5	13	4	0.47	13	5
Internet	13	4	13	4	0.96	13	5
Use of telemonitoring systems (%)	49		32		0.09	35

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