Measuring digital practice across a heterogeneous clinical workforce: a task-level, profession-stratified survey of digital work by allied health professionals

Profession-stratified, task-level analysis of digital work in an English specialist cancer centre found seven significant between-profession differences (n2H 0.20–0.51) in task frequency, relevance, and feature use, not proficiency or perceived impact.

• Why it matters: Generic self-rated measures and pooled UK reporting may hide how different allied health professions differ in digital tasks, relevance, and use, limiting accurate measurement of digital practice.
• What they did: In a cross-sectional census-frame survey of 131 allied health professionals (90 completed at least one task) using the AHP Digital Practice Inventory (56 tasks across nine EHR-anchored domains), the authors compared pooled versus profession-stratified task cells with Benjamini-Hochberg correction.
• The result: A screening rule flagged four of 263 profession-task cells when stratified but none of 56 tasks when pooled; seven profession effects persisted after adjustment, and response rates varied from 23% to 86%, so findings reflect the responding sample.

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