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Adoption and Use of Digital Technologies among General Dental Practitioners in the Netherlands

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  • Marieke M van der Zande
  • Ronald C Gorter
  • Irene H A Aartman
  • Daniel Wismeijer

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Objectives: To investigate (1) the degree of digital technology adoption among general dental practitioners, and to assess (2) which personal and practice factors are associated with technology use. Methods: A questionnaire was distributed among a stratified sample of 1000 general dental practitioners in the Netherlands, to measure the use of fifteen administrative, communicative, clinical and diagnostic technologies, as well as personal factors and dental practice characteristics. Results: The response rate was 31.3%; 65.1% replied to the questionnaire on paper and 34.9% online. Each specific digital technology was used by between 93.2% and 6.8% of the dentists. Administrative technologies were generally used by more dentists than clinical technologies. Dentists had adopted an average number of 6.3±2.3 technologies. 22.5% were low technology users (0 to 4 technologies), 46.2% were intermediate technology users (5 to 7 technologies) and 31.3% were high technology users (8 to12 technologies). High technology users more frequently had a specialization (p

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  • Marieke M van der Zande & Ronald C Gorter & Irene H A Aartman & Daniel Wismeijer, 2015. "Adoption and Use of Digital Technologies among General Dental Practitioners in the Netherlands," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 10(3), pages 1-13, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:plo:pone00:0120725
    DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0120725
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