Using a modified technology acceptance model to evaluate healthcare professionals' adoption of a new telemonitoring system

Telemedicine and e-Health

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 54-59

  Gagnon, Marie Pierre ^a,b   Orruño, Estibalitz ^c   Asua, José ^d   Abdeljelil, Anis Ben ^a   Emparanza, José ^e  

^a LAVAL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^c Office for Health Technology Assessment (Osteba)   (Spain)

^d Department of Health and Consumer Affairs   (Spain)

^e HOSPITAL DONOSTIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

home health monitoring; telehealth; telemedicine

Indexed keywords

CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONSTRUCT VALIDITY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CRONBACH ALPHA; DEPENDENT VARIABLES; HEALTH CARE PROFESSIONALS; HOME HEALTH MONITORING; INTERNAL CONSISTENCY; INTERNAL MEDICINE; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MODIFIED MODEL; ODDS RATIOS; PERCEIVED USEFULNESS; PREDICTIVE MODELS; RESPONSE RATE; TECHNOLOGY ACCEPTANCE MODEL; TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENTS; TELE-MONITORING; TELEHEALTH; TELEMONITORING SYSTEMS; THEORETICAL MODELS; USAGE INTENTION;

MEDICAL COMPUTING; NURSING; RATING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SURVEYS;

TELEMEDICINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO COMPUTERS; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE SURVEY; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; MALE; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MONITORING; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RISK; SPAIN; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; TELEMEDICINE;

ADULT; ATTITUDE TO COMPUTERS; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; MIDDLE AGED; MONITORING, PHYSIOLOGIC; ODDS RATIO; SPAIN; TELEMEDICINE;

EID: 84856743816     PISSN: 15305627     EISSN: 15563669     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/tmj.2011.0066     Document Type: Article

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