Table 2

Use of e-consultations (from patient electronic medical records and e-consultation data)

User characteristics% of individual e-consultations (n=485)
Users*
 Unique users71.1 (345)
 Repeat users28.8 (140)
Gender *
 Man35.3 (171)
 Woman64.7 (315)
Age group (years)*
 18–248.7 (42)
 25–4453.4 (259)
 45–6429.1 (141)
 65–746.2 (30)
 75–842.1 (10)
 85+0.21
Day of week†
 Monday19.8 (96)
 Tuesday18.6 (90)
 Wednesday20.4 (99)
 Thursday17.3 (84)
 Friday11.6 (56)
 Saturday5.4 (26)
 Sunday7.0 (34)
Time of day†
 00:00–06:594.1 (20)
 07:00–09:5916.9 (82)
 10:00–12:5925.8 (125)
 13:00–16:5927.2 (132)
 17:00–18:596.6 (32)
 19:00–23:5919.4 (94)
  • *Abstracted from patient-level data.

  • †From website analytics.