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Table 1 Practitioner attitudes towards telemonitoring

From: Readiness to use telemonitoring in diabetes care: a cross-sectional study among Austrian practitioners

 

Number

Percent

How would you rate your degree of innovativeness?a

 Innovator

5

12.2

 Early adopter

22

53.7

 Early majority

9

22.0

 Late majority

2

4.9

 Laggard

3

7.3

How do you feel about telemonitoring?

 Negative

6

14.7

 Neutral

10

24.4

 Positive

25

61.0

How would you feel about offering telemonitoring services to your patients?

 Strongly disagree

2

4.9

 Disagree

10

24.4

 Agree

17

41.5

 Strongly agree

12

29.3

How would you feel about patients paying for telemonitoring services?

 Strongly disagree

4

9.8

 Disagree

9

22.0

 Agree

18

43.9

 Strongly agree

10

24.4

What would you like to improve with telemonitoring services?

 Service and treatment quality

31

75.6

 Internal processes

16

39.0

 Turnover

9

22.0

Total

41

100.0

  1. Note: a Item adapted from Rogers 2003 [31]