Evaluating a spoken dialogue system for recording clinical observations during an endoscopic examination

The physician specialties covered in reviewed studies were endoscopy, pediatrics, disability care, and a mix of specialists and general practitioners.

“The physician specialties covered were endoscopy [96], pediatrics [97], disability care [98], and some mix of specialists and general practitioners [32, 99-101].”

Only two reviewed studies had questions mentioning effort specifically.

“Despite the PEOU definitions given in Section 3.4 above, only two studies had questions mentioning effort specifically [96, 97].”

The added variables in reviewed studies included perceived IT system characteristics, personal characteristics of users, organizational characteristics, and psychological variables such as ownership and trust.

“The list of added variables includes various perceived IT system characteristics such as how well the system performs [96, 107, 112] and how relevant it is to one’s job [106], personal characteristics of users [98, 105, 106], characteristics of the organization such as readiness for IT or technical support [98, 105, 106, 109], and psychological variables such as ownership [101] and trust [103].”

Reviewed studies varied in the stage of health IT studied, including prototypes, trial systems, to-be-implemented systems, and implemented systems of different ages.

“Another is the stage of the health IT; some studies reviewed here studied prototypes [96], trial systems [107], or to-be-implemented systems [108], whereas others studied implemented systems that had been around for different lengths of times.”

Physicians and other health care providers differ from users of IT in other TAM studies, and the general health care context differs from the industries where TAM originated.

“Those in health care who advocate the use of TAM commonly point out how different physicians and other health care providers are from the users of IT in other studies of TAM, and how the general health care context differs from that of the industries where TAM originated [30, 32, 58, 61, 96, 98, 100].”

Few studies have done beliefs elicitation work with respect to health IT, and none to the authors' knowledge have revised TAM based on such work.

“Few have done this kind of beliefs elicitation work with respect to health IT [70, 72, 76, 96, 102], and none to our knowledge have revised TAM based on such work.”