Use of email for patient communication in student health care: a cross-sectional study

Table 3 Patient contacts documented in the EPR and registered in the survey.

Type of patient contact	Number of patient contacts			Statistical significance of the difference between expected and registered contacts²)
	All physicians	Respondents
	Documented data in electronic patient record (Medicus^R)	Expected¹⁾	Registered
	n	n	n	p
Visit	3098	2107	2296	0.237
Phone call	1115	758	948	< 0.001
Email	178	121	449	< 0.001

Patient contacts documented by all physicians at the Finnish Student Health Service (n = 76) in the electronic patient record (Medicus^R) and registered by respondents (n = 52) in a survey over one working week (5.5. – 9.5.2003), as well as the statistical significance of the difference in contact numbers.
¹⁾Based on the proportion of respondents among all physicians
²⁾ Proportion test for two independent groups