The multiple uses of telemedicine during the pandemic: the evidence from a cross-sectional survey of medical doctors in Brazil

Table 2 Profile of physician users of telemedicine and purposes of its employment

	Office visits and guidance			Healthcare team meetings			Case discussions			Prescriptions and certificates			Patient record annotations			Training
	n		p-value	n		p-value	n		p-value	n		p-value	n		p-value	n		p-value
Sex
Male	190	52.5	0.086	303	53.3	0.053	352	54.2	0.115	150	51.4	0.055	143	52.6	0.183	259	55.1	0.533
Female	172	47.5	0.086	266	46.7	0.053	298	45.8	0.115	142	48.6	0.055	129	47.4	0.183	211	44.9	0.533
Age
< 35	112	30.9	0.250	187	32.9	0.079	230	35.4	0.024	86	29.5	0.078	79	29.0	0.025	147	31.3	0.1600
35–50	134	37.0		213	37.4		236	36.3		114	39.0		111	40.8		174	37.0
> 50	116	32.0		169	29.7		184	28.3		92	31.5		82	30.1		149	31.7
Sector
Private	70	19.3	< 0.001	81	14.2	0.032	75	11.5	0.112	49	16.8	0.001	56	20.6	< 0.001	71	15.1	0.158
Public	71	19.6		126	22.1		158	24.3		53	18.2		44	16.2		112	23.8
Dual-practice	221	61.0		362	63.6		417	64.2		190	65.1		172	63.2		287	61.1
State
Maranhão	153	42.3	0.048	219	38.5	< 0.001	283	43.5	0.022	127	43.5	0.225	98	36.0	< 0.001	218	46.4	0.953
São Paulo	209	57.7	0.048	350	61.5	< 0.001	367	56.5	0.022	165	56.5	0.225	174	64.0	< 0.001	252	53.6	0.953
Region
Countryside	164	45.3	0.020	258	45.3	< 0.001	316	48.6	0.144	117	40.1	< 0.001	125	46.0	0.084	229	48.7	0.313
Capital	198	54.7	0.020	311	54.7	< 0.001	334	51.4	0.144	175	59.9	< 0.001	147	54.0	0.084	241	51.3	0.313

Source: USP-UFMA-QMUL (2021): Physicians’ survey regarding work and impact of COVID-19

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