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Table 2 Doctors' perceptions of usefulness of various functions of the personal digital assistant (PDA)

From: How residents and interns utilise and perceive the personal digital assistant and UpToDate

Function

Useful*

Owns software applications†

Drug information

45 (83.3)

16 (29.6)

Medical references

44 (81.5)

27 (50.0)

Scheduling/calendar

38 (70.4)

Not applicable

Medical calculators

37 (68.5)

18 (33.3)

Documentation

17 (31.5)

Not applicable

  1. * Data are presented as the number (%) of doctors who chose "Strongly agree" or "Agree", as opposed to "Not sure", "Disagree" or "Strongly disagree" when the 54 doctors who owned personal digital assistants were asked if each function was useful for acquiring medical knowledge.
  2. † Data are presented as the number (%) of doctors who owned the relevant medical software applications.
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