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Table 4 Responses of study physicians to health problems created from medical services they provided or single indication drugs they prescribed1 in comparison to health problem information created by other physicians.

From: Assessing the accuracy of an inter-institutional automated patient-specific health problem list

Originating data source

Problems assessed as invalid

n (%)

Problems assessed as valid

n (%)

Problems not yet assessed2

n (%)

Total

N (%)

Study physician

9,430 (10.3%)

25,607 (28.1%)

56,179 (61.6%)

91,216 (100%)

Other physician

18,787 (14.9%)

15,311 (12.2%)

91,769 (72.9%)

125,867 (100%)

Total

28,217 (13.0%)

40,918 (18.9%)

147,948 (68.1%)

217,0832,3

  1. 1 Excludes electronic prescriptions (n = 37,565)
  2. 2 Excludes manually entered health problems (n = 6,580) and health problems with missing physician data source (n = 1,849)
  3. 3 Includes problems that may not have been seen by physicians