Table 1. Users of Anesthesiologist app and properties of their practice,a 1 October 2018 to 30 June 2020 .
Properties of app user and their practice | No. (%) |
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User characteristics, if provided (n = 50 989)b | |
Physician attending or consultant | 13 198 (25.9) |
Physician resident, fellow or registrar | 10 904 (21.4) |
Certified registered nurse anaesthetist or anaesthesiologist assistant | 12 748 (25.0) |
Certified registered nurse anaesthetist or trainee anaesthesiologist assistant | 2 367 (4.6) |
Technically trained in anaesthesia | 1 408 (2.8) |
Anaesthesia technician | 3 089 (6.1) |
Medical student | 2 282 (4.5) |
Nurse | 1749 (3.4) |
Paramedic emergency medical technician | 1 089 (2.1) |
Respiratory therapist | 381 (0.7) |
Pharmacist | 447 (0.9) |
Other medical practitioner | 817 (1.6) |
Not medical practitioner | 510 (1.0) |
Practice model, if provided (n = 22 315)b | |
Physician only | 6 835 (30.6) |
Physician supervised, anaesthesiologist onsite | 9 300 (41.7) |
Physician supervised, non-anaesthesiologist physician onsite | 2 077 (9.3) |
Physician supervised, no physician onsite | 1 319 (5.9) |
No physician supervision | 1 519 (6.8) |
Not an anaesthesia provider | 1 265 (5.7) |
Practice type, if provided (n = 23 586)b | |
Private clinic or office | 4 638 (19.7) |
Local health clinic | 2 166 (9.2) |
Ambulatory surgery centre | 1 525 (6.5) |
Small community hospital | 2 933 (12.4) |
Large community hospital | 6 413 (27.2) |
Academic department or university hospital | 5 911 (25.1) |
Practice size, if provided (n = 28 090)b | |
Single practitioner for a large area | 7 890 (28.1) |
One of several practitioners in the area | 5 445 (19.4) |
Group practice size (members) | |
1–5 | 3 710 (13.2) |
> 5–10 | 2 930 (10.4) |
> 10–25 | 2 731 (9.7) |
> 25–50 | 2 219 (7.9) |
> 50 | 3 165 (11.3) |
App: mobile application.
a Mean length of practice, 13.2 years (standard deviation: 13.4 years).
b Completion of any part of the survey is not compulsory for users of the app.