In message <v01540b02ae9bfdc575a3@[194.206.164.29]> [log in to unmask] ([log in to unmask]) writes:
>At 13:52 29/10/96, Pete Mitchell is rumored to have typed:
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>> [from e-Med News] Primary care doctors in most European countries use
>> the Internet very little, according to a survey performed by Isis
>> Research early this year. It is most popular in Britain where 10% of
>> GPs have a personal Internet account. Uptake is likely to grow
>> rapidly in both the UK and Germany, but in France, Italy and Spain it
>> will be much slower because of the low usage of computers in other
>> aspects of practice, according to Isis's Peter Winters.
>>
>> Fifty GPs in each of five countries were sampled for the research.
>> One German, three Italian and five British doctors had Internet
>> connections _ none of the French or Spanish doctors had. The results
>> are partly explained by the existence of GP computers for other
>> purposes. About 80% of British and German doctors use computers for
>> generating prescriptions, while only 36% of Italian doctors, 20% of
>> French and 6% of Spanish doctors do. The survey is being repeated
>> this month: contact Mr Winters on (+44) 181 788 8819
>> or [log in to unmask]
>>
>> [ends]
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>Fifty people in each country, this is a very little sample! We are 120000
>liberal doctors, I don't know how much colleagues are working in the
>hospitals.
>In France, use of Internet among doctors is growing each month.
It doesn't matter how big the population is - a sample size of 50 is
large enough to draw some conclusions, given that *none* of the
French doctors in the sample were Internet users. Assuming the
sample was truly random, the 90% confidence limit for the actual
prevalence of users is about 4% I think - though most probably it was
less than 2%. Of course things will have changed since February. And
now that the big national medical computerization project is kicking
off in France, one would expect very rapid growth after a year or
two. Though it is possible that French users will be discouraged by the
immense bias towards English-language sources on the Net.
--
Pete Mitchell, Editor, e-Med News - an international
newsletter on electronic data in medical applications
headline news: http://www.pjbpubs.co.uk/a/emedhome.html
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