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Table 3 Frequency of nurses’ use of information resources

From: The role of organizational context and individual nurse characteristics in explaining variation in use of information technologies in evidence based practice

Resource

Tablet PC

PDA device

p valueb

Na(%)

N (%)

Google

82 (61.65)

51 (38.35)

0.0072

IV compatibility

17 (37.78)

28 (62.22)

0.1011

Medical diagnoses, reference information

58 (45.67)

69 (54.33)

0.3290

Drug dictionary

48 (40.68)

70 (59.33)

0.0428

In-house resources

60 (62.50)

36 (37.50)

0.0143

Nursing+ email alerts

58 (59.79)

39 (40.21)

0.0537

RNAO best practice guidelines

51 (63.13)

45 (46.88)

0.5403

Laboratory values

39 (45.88)

46 (54.12)

0.4477

Calculator

29 (40.28)

43 (59.72)

0.0990

Nursing+ database search

40 (57.97)

29 (42.03)

0.1854

  1. a N’s vary depending on the number of nurses indicating they used the information resource every few days or more often.
  2. b p value from Chi-square test.