Table 3.

Ranking List of Respondents' Acceptance of e-Health Applications

NUMBER	TYPE OF E-HEALTH APPLICATIONS FOR PATIENTS	MEAN SCOREa	SD	TYPES OF APPLICATIONS WITH STATISTICALLY DIFFERENT SCORESb
1	Booking of appointments with physicians	2.86	1.16	2–11
2	Access to laboratory test results	2.61	1.12	1, 7–11
3	Provision of educational resources	2.52	1.09	1, 11
4	Electronic renewal of prescriptions	2.50	1.25	1, 10, 11
5	Personal repository of medical documentation	2.45	1.09	1, 11
6	Electronic diary for reporting symptoms	2.38	1.07	1, 11
7	Regular reporting of disease status to physician	2.30	1.16	1, 2
8	Contact with healthcare provider in case of disease exacerbation	2.29	1.14	1, 2
9	Online contact with healthcare professional (nurse or physician) on an as-needed basis	2.28	1.06	1, 2, 11
10	Referral to physician	2.18	1.09	1, 2, 4
11	Remote monitoring of physiological parameters	2.02	1.05	1–6, 9

^aThe responses to items listed here were ranked on a 5-point Likert scale. For further analysis, responses showing strong disagreement were assigned a value of 0, and those showing strong acceptance were classed as 4.

^bThe numbers of applications that received statistically different scores in post hoc comparison of pairs of e-health applications with the sign test after Bonferroni's adjustment.

SD, standard deviation.