Table 2

Case scenario completion

TaskNumber of tasks not completed
Cycle 1
n=2
Cycle 2
n=3
Cycle 3
n=5
Information in same location for both prototypes:
 Number of studies contributing to meta-analysis
Task given to participants: A colleague briefly describes the meta-analysis. Can you locate this information and describe how many studies it summarises?
2 (100%)3 (100%)2 (40%)
 Locate evidence rating scale
Task given to participants: You want to present some of this information to others and need to confirm how the evidence rating scale works. Can you describe the evidence rating scale?
1 (20%)
 Locate adverse event information
Task given to participants: You would like to prescribe rilmenidine and want to confirm any adverse events. Can you locate this information and describe it?
1 (33%)
 State ‘take-home message’
Task given to participants: You need to give a group of residents the clinical summary or a ‘take-home message’ from the document. What information would you share with them?
2 (100%)
 Report explanation for odds ratio
Task Given to Participants: You want to confirm the explanation for an odds ratio. Can you find this information and describe it?
1 (33%)
 Treatment for ocular rosacea
Task given to participants: There are no trials for several treatments. Can you locate one treatment for ocular rosacea where there are no randomised controlled trials for evaluation and state it?
1 (33%)2 (40%)
Information in different locations on prototypes:
 Number of studies contributing to review
Task given to participants: You want a sense of how many studies contributed to the entire review. Locate this information and describe the number of studies
1 (50%)2 (66%)1 (20%)
Total errors586