Personal digital assistant uses and preferences among clinical oncologists: a needs assessment

Author

Mozelak, Brian ; Glassman, Bemard ; Johnston, Rob

fYear

2001

fDate

2001

Firstpage

529

Lastpage

534

Abstract

A needs assessment was performed to determine user information requirements for hand-held and mobile personal digital assistants within the clinical oncology community. Quantitative and qualitative data were collected through semi-structured interviews, a survey instrument and a focus group in order to triangulate the findings. The data were analyzed quantitatively for demographics, current practices and information-gathering preferences, and qualitatively for the development of future decision aids, clinical aids and practice management tools

Keywords

cancer; demography; information needs; medical administrative data processing; medical computing; microcomputer applications; notebook computers; tumours; PDA uses; clinical aids; clinical oncologists; current practices; decision aids; demographics; focus group; hand-held personal digital assistants; information-gathering preferences; mobile personal digital assistants; needs assessment; practice management tools; qualitative data analysis; quantitative data analysis; semi-structured interviews; survey instrument; user information requirements; user preferences; Cancer; Communications technology; Demography; Information management; Instruments; Oncology; Operating systems; Personal digital assistants; Quality management; Wireless communication;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computer-Based Medical Systems, 2001. CBMS 2001. Proceedings. 14th IEEE Symposium on

Conference_Location

Bethesda, MD

ISSN

1063-7125

Print_ISBN

0-7695-1004-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CBMS.2001.941773

Filename

941773