Target:

The revolution in information and communication technologies is the basis on which the advance of health technological innovations and biomedical research has been developed. These advances have been decisive in the improvement of health, since they have involved new forms of medical care that contribute to the increase in life expectancy, pain reduction and disease management. The aim is to assess the level of acceptance of new technologies in physicians who treat pain through specific units.

Material and method:

A study was carried out on the use of new information technologies in physicians who perform pain treatment in specific centers. The data was obtained from the elaboration of an online questionnaire that has been sent via email to the students of the Master in Pain Treatment of the USAL. After the systematic collection of information, we performed the statistical analyzes addressing the frequency of the variables and the statistically significant relationships relevant to our study. Later, we carried out a factor analysis, cluster analysis and the construction of new compound variables to synthesize the data. After this identification, the analysis of statistically significant relationships has allowed us to characterize these individuals. Finally, we performed an analysis using a logistic regression methodology through the Binomial Logit model.

The tool used to carry out the online survey was Google Sheets, a tool included within Google Docs, which is designed to work through the Internet and the Web.

Results:

The 57 % of the medical professionals who answered our survey are men, while 43 % of the answers belong to women, of Pain Unit (39.46 %), Palliative Care (21.35 %) and in the Centers of Primary Care (CAP), Adding this data we obtain that 75.94 % of professionals work in public entities, 9.72 % in private entities and 11.05 % in both. 79.5 % of the surveying professionals do not offer their mobile phone to patients. More than 83 % of the professionals surveyed use very frequently (29.5 %) or Frequently (54.2 %) guidelines / medical protocols in their clinical practice; More than 55% of the professionals surveyed "never use computers or Information and Communication Technologies for the remote realization of diagnostic evaluation or prescription of therapeutic measures". However, 40 % of the respondents declare that they have done telemedicine.

Conclusions:

In general, the data show us a beneficial conception of the applications of Information and Communication Technologies for clinical practice in relation to the digitalization and distribution of clinical information. In addition, given the clinical experience of professionals, the need for organizational changes associated with new computer systems is confirmed.

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