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BackgroundSince the time of Web 2.0, more and more consumers have used online doctor reviews to rate their doctors or to look for a doctor. This phenomenon has received health care researchers’ attention worldwide, and many studies have been conducted on online doctor reviews in the United States and Europe. But no study has yet been done in China. Also, in China, without a mature primary care physician recommendation system, more and more Chinese consumers seek online doctor reviews to look for a good doctor for their health care concerns. ObjectiveThis study sought to examine the online doctor review practice in China, including addressing the following questions: (1) How many doctors and specialty areas are available for online review? (2) How many online reviews are there on those doctors? (3) What specialty area doctors are more likely to be reviewed or receive more reviews? (4) Are those reviews positive or negative? MethodsThis study explores an empirical dataset from Good Doctor website, haodf.com—the earliest and largest online doctor review and online health care community website in China—from 2006 to 2014, to examine the stated research questions by using descriptive statistics, binary logistic regression, and multivariate linear regression. ResultsThe dataset from the Good Doctor website contained 314,624 doctors across China and among them, 112,873 doctors received 731,543 quantitative reviews and 772,979 qualitative reviews as of April 11, 2014. On average, 37% of the doctors had been reviewed on the Good Doctor website. Gynecology-obstetrics-pediatrics doctors were most likely to be reviewed, with an odds ratio (OR) of 1.497 (95% CI 1.461-1.535), and internal medicine doctors were less likely to be reviewed, with an OR of 0.94 (95% CI 0.921-0.960), relative to the combined small specialty areas. Both traditional Chinese medicine doctors and surgeons were more likely to be reviewed than the combined small specialty areas, with an OR of 1.483 (95% CI 1.442-1.525) and an OR of 1.366 (95% CI 1.337-1.395), respectively. Quantitatively, traditional Chinese medicine doctors (P

BACKGROUND: To discover and develop novel acaricidal compounds, a series of 2‐fluoro‐4‐methyl/chlorine‐5‐((2,2,2‐trifluoroethyl)thio)aniline/phenol compounds containing N/O‐benzyl moieties were synthesized based on lead compound LZ‐1. RESULTS: The activity of these compounds against carmine spider mites (Tetranychus cinnabarinus) was determined using the leaf‐spray method. Bioassays indicated that most of the designed target compounds possessed moderate to excellent acaricidal activity against adult T. cinnabarinus. The median lethal concentrations of 25b and 26b were 0.683 and 2.448 mg L−1 against adult mites, respectively; exceeding those of bifenazate (7.519 mg L−1) and lead compound LZ‐1(3.658 mg L−1). Compound 25b exhibited 100% mortality in T. cinnabarinus larvae at 10 mg L−1. CONCLUSION: Continuing the study of these compounds in field trials, we compared the efficacy of mite killing by compound 25b with the commercial pesticide spirodiclofen and showed that mite control achieved 95.9% and 83.0% lethality at 10 and 22 days post‐treatment. In comparison, spirodiclofen showed 92.7% lethality at 10 days and 77.2% lethality at 22 days post‐treatment at a concentration of 100 mg L−1. Results showed that 25b produced more facile and long‐lasting control against T. cinnabarinus than the commercial acaricide spirodiclofen. Density functional theory analysis and electrostatic potential calculations of various molecular substitutions suggested some useful models to achieve other highly active miticidal compounds. © 2023 Society of Chemical Industry. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study empirically examines the opinion leader effects on a mobile clinical information technology implementation by physicians in an American community health system using a fixed effect regression model. The model result suggests that the opinion leader effects are statistically significant during this information technology implementation process. Quantitatively, if opinion leaders increase their technology usage by 10 percent, the physicians who work closely with those opinion leaders would increase their technology usage by 3.5 percent, after controlling for physician individual-level fixed effects, time effects, working environment, and workload. This empirical result of opinion leader effects provides policy implications such as, if a healthcare system wants to promote a new information technology or a new mobile information technology implementation within their organization, they should leverage this opinion leader effects. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Given the increasing number of applications but slow adoption of IT, including mobile IT, in healthcare, it is important to develop a better understanding of the contextual factors that motivate IT adoption by physicians. Although studies have shown that age or gender may affect physicians' IT adoption, those factors cannot be controlled when deploying a new IT. Therefore, the current research examines empirical evidence of a contextual factor, opinion leader effects, on IT adoption in healthcare that can be influenced by organizational policies. Using a unique panel dataset of physicians' usage of a mobile clinical IT from a community hospital, we observe a significant result that physicians under the influence of opinion leaders are three times more likely to adopt the IT than otherwise. This finding suggests that incentivizing a small proportion of opinion leaders to adopt a new IT has the potential to motivate wider adoption across the organization.