Use of Mobile Devices to Access Point-of-Care Information Resources by Doctors of Ekiti State University Teaching Hospital, Ado-Ekiti, Nigeria
| Autor: | Idowu Adegbilero-Iwari, Oluwaseun Eniola Adegbilero-Iwari |
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| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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Health (social science)
business.product_category 020205 medical informatics Multimedia business.industry Information needs 02 engineering and technology Library and Information Sciences computer.software_genre Popularity Teaching hospital 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine 0202 electrical engineering electronic engineering information engineering Internet access Medicine 030212 general & internal medicine State (computer science) University teaching business Mobile device computer Point of care |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Electronic Resources in Medical Libraries. 13:114-123 |
| ISSN: | 1542-4073 1542-4065 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/15424065.2016.1231027 |
| Popis: | Mobile technologies such as smartphones and tablets have gained popularity in the Nigerian telecommunication industry recently, so much so that Nigeria ranks as the fastest growing telecommunication market. Despite this, there seems to be a dearth of studies on the clinicians’ use of mobile devices to access point-of-care (POC) information in Nigeria. This article seeks to investigate how medical doctors are meeting their point-of-care information needs through these mobile devices. A specially designed questionnaire was used to elicit information; data were analyzed using the SPSS statistical tool and the results were discussed. The study found that 74.29% of the doctors possessed smartphones and accessed POC information resources using these devices. However, 54.28% were found to use laptops to access POC information resources. Smartphones (57.14%) are the preferred means of accessing POC information resources, while lack of Internet connectivity (57.14% and lack of data subscription (54.29%) we... |
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