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| Title |
Smartphone and medical related App use among medical students and junior doctors in the United Kingdom (UK): a regional survey
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|---|---|
| Published in |
BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making, October 2012
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| DOI | 10.1186/1472-6947-12-121 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Karl Frederick Braekkan Payne, Heather Wharrad, Kim Watts |
| Abstract |
Smartphone usage has spread to many settings including that of healthcare with numerous potential and realised benefits. The ability to download custom-built software applications (apps) has created a new wealth of clinical resources available to healthcare staff, providing evidence-based decisional tools to reduce medical errors.Previous literature has examined how smartphones can be utilised by both medical student and doctor populations, to enhance educational and workplace activities, with the potential to improve overall patient care. However, this literature has not examined smartphone acceptance and patterns of medical app usage within the student and junior doctor populations. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 76 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 24 | 32% |
| United States | 7 | 9% |
| Spain | 4 | 5% |
| Ireland | 4 | 5% |
| Australia | 4 | 5% |
| India | 2 | 3% |
| Netherlands | 1 | 1% |
| Bulgaria | 1 | 1% |
| Saudi Arabia | 1 | 1% |
| Other | 2 | 3% |
| Unknown | 26 | 34% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 45 | 59% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 21 | 28% |
| Scientists | 8 | 11% |
| Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 2 | 3% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 807 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 11 | 1% |
| Spain | 4 | <1% |
| Nigeria | 3 | <1% |
| Canada | 3 | <1% |
| India | 2 | <1% |
| Malaysia | 2 | <1% |
| Germany | 2 | <1% |
| United States | 2 | <1% |
| South Africa | 1 | <1% |
| Other | 8 | <1% |
| Unknown | 769 | 95% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Master | 122 | 15% |
| Student > Bachelor | 121 | 15% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 77 | 10% |
| Student > Postgraduate | 68 | 8% |
| Researcher | 67 | 8% |
| Other | 217 | 27% |
| Unknown | 135 | 17% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 315 | 39% |
| Computer Science | 80 | 10% |
| Social Sciences | 62 | 8% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 51 | 6% |
| Business, Management and Accounting | 33 | 4% |
| Other | 101 | 13% |
| Unknown | 165 | 20% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 82. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 16 May 2020.
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#529,231
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Outputs from BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making
#10
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#2,790
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Outputs of similar age from BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making
#1
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