Department of Surgery, School of Medicine, University of Salamanca, Avda Alfonso X El Sabio s/n, 37007, Salamanca, Spain.
VisualMed Systems Group, University of Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain.
J Med Syst. 2017 May;41(5):78. doi: 10.1007/s10916-017-0726-3. Epub 2017 Mar 27.
Adequate use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) in health has been shown to save the patient and caregiver time, improve access to the health system, improve diagnosis and control of disease or treatment. All this results in cost savings, and more importantly, they help improve the quality of service and the lives of patients. The purpose of this study is to analyse the differences in the uses of this ICTs between those physicians that belong to Pain Treatment Units (PU) and other physicians that work in pain not linked to these PUs. An online survey, generated by Netquest online survey tool, was sent to both groups of professionals and the data collected was statistical analysed through a logistic regression methodology which is the Logit binomial model. Our results show that those physicians that belong to PUs use ICTs more frequently and consider it more relevant to their clinical practice.
充分利用信息和通信技术（ICTs）已被证明可以节省患者和护理人员的时间，改善对医疗系统的获取，改善疾病的诊断和控制或治疗。所有这些都可以节省成本，更重要的是，它们有助于提高服务质量和患者的生活质量。本研究的目的是分析属于疼痛治疗单位（PU）的医生与不隶属于这些 PU 的从事疼痛治疗的医生之间在使用这些 ICTs 方面的差异。我们通过 Netquest 在线调查工具生成了一个在线调查，发送给这两组专业人员，并通过逻辑回归方法（即二项逻辑模型）对收集到的数据进行了统计分析。我们的结果表明，属于疼痛治疗单位的医生更频繁地使用 ICTs，并认为它与他们的临床实践更相关。
