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The objective of the survey was to measure the adoption and utilization of, opinions about, and attitudes toward clinical computing among general dentists in the United States. The survey was carried out as a telephone (and paper) survey of 256 general dentists in active practice in the USA. The sample was drawn as a random sample and the response rate was 39.8%.
Results: Clinical information associated with
administration and billing, such as appointments and treatment plans, was stored predominantly on the computer; other information, such as the medical history and progress notes, primarily resided on paper. Nineteen respondents, or 1.8% of all general dentists, were completely paperless. Auxiliary personnel, such as dental assistants and hygienists, ntered most data. Respondents adopted clinical computing to improve office efficiency and operations, support diagnosis
and treatment, and enhance patient communication and perception. Barriers included insufficient operational
reliability, program limitations, a steep learning curve, cost, and infection control issues.
Conclusion: Clinical computing is being increasingly adopted in general dentistry. However, future research must address usefulness and ease of use, workflow support, infection control, integration, and implementation issues.
Schleyer et al., Center for Dental informatics, University of Pittsburgh
- Survey
2006
- No
2004
- United States
- Specialist
- Nurse and practice staff
- Health professional (generic)
- Diagnosis
- Consultation
- Referring
- Laboratory analysis
- Patient data exchange (generic)
- Health information provision
- Health information search
- ICT use (generic)
- ICT availability
- Attitudes towards ICT
- Assessment of ICT impacts
- Administration
- Patient data storage (generic)
- ICT infrastructure (hardware)
- Electronic health/medical record (EHR/EMR)
- Decision Support Systems/Software (DSS)
- Picture archiving and communication system (PACS)
The survey used a random sample of 1,159 general dentists in active practice in the USA. Of those 1,039 were successfully screened. 256 of those screened had a chairside computer and were thus eligible for the study. Of those 102 rspondents (39,8%) were interviewed. Since the characteristics of both respondents and non-respondents were known and did not differ significantly, there was no bias due to non-responses.
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