Aspect of benefit | Criteria | Seniority (years) | P value | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
"Highly important" ranking by Percent | |||||
1.-.5 | 6.-.15 | 16+ | |||
Clinical | Lifesaving | 84 | 69 | 77 | 0.35 |
Quality of life improvement | 59 | 42 | 54 | 0.53 | |
Patients' functional improvement | 24 | 19 | 46 | 0.08 | |
Safety | 82 | 39 | 50 | 0.02 | |
Social | Serving a large population | 18 | 12 | 31 | 0.22 |
Serving a specific population within the hospital | 18 | 8 | 15 | 0.58 | |
Improving the serves to the patient | 6 | 8 | 27 | 0.07 | |
Patients’ preference | 41 | 46 | 62 | 0.36 | |
Technological | Lack of effective alternative technology | 71 | 62 | 77 | 0.48 |
Completion of a technology already exists at the hospital | 18 | 27 | 23 | 0.78 | |
Innovation and Improving medical standards | 18 | 31 | 46 | 0.14 | |
Improving hospital reputation | 24 | 31 | 35 | 0.74 | |
Economical | Efficiency | 35 | 54 | 58 | 0.33 |
Manpower savings | 17 | 42 | 62 | 0.02 | |
Budget savings | 24 | 46 | 24 | 14 | |
Technology that requires a significant investment in infrastructure | 29 | 31 | 8 | 0.89 | |
Maintenance costs | 12 | 15 | 4 | 0.37 | |
Extent education | 29 | 12 | 23 | 0.33 |