Attitudes and perspectives of 534 Chinese pediatricians toward internet hospitals

作者：Wenbin Cui, Weijun Zhu, Xiaojie Li, Danmai Wu, Ping He, Guangjun Yu · 发表于：Frontiers in Pediatrics · 年份：2022 · DOI：10.3389/fped.2022.948788 · 被引用次数：5 · 研究领域：Telemedicine and Telehealth Implementation、Mobile Health and mHealth Applications、Health Literacy and Information Accessibility

Background: Internet hospitals introduced in China have effectively reduced service time and space, promoted high-quality pediatric medical resources to grassroots areas, solved the contradiction between supply and demand of pediatric medical resources, and met patients' increasing multi-level and diversified medical service needs. However, pediatricians' attitudes toward and satisfaction with the use of internet hospitals remain unknown. Objective: This study aimed to investigate pediatricians' knowledge of, use of, and satisfaction with internet hospitals in order to identify major issues in internet hospital development, and to understand pediatricians' attitudes and opinions on the construction, development, and use of internet hospitals. Materials and methods: A total of 625 pediatricians in 17 public tertiary hospitals in Shanghai were surveyed from November 1-30, 2021. Five hundred and thirty four pediatricians completed the survey, and the response rate was 85.44%. Pediatricians' baseline demographic data were collected and information about their use of and satisfaction with internet hospitals. Results: About 70.22% (375/534) of pediatricians knew about internet hospitals and about 54.68% (292/534) use internet hospitals for patient consultation, diagnosis, and treatment. Utilized services mainly focused on online consultation (271/292, 92.81%), online follow-up consultation (174/292, 59.59%), and health sciences (111/292, 38.01%). Online services were provided by 69...