Table 2.
Ownership and utilization of smartphones by healthcare workers
| No. | % | |
|---|---|---|
| Own smartphone?a | ||
| None | 12 | 3.4 |
| Iphone | 169 | 48.4 |
| Android | 168 | 48.2 |
| Nokia | 4 | 1.2 |
| Blackberry | 2 | 0.6 |
| Others | 5 | 1.4 |
| Utilization of smartphone in healthcare | 146 | 42.3 |
| Use of other appliencesa | ||
| No | 127 | 39.9 |
| Tablet | 24 | 7.5 |
| IPAD | 139 | 43.6 |
| Others | 33 | 10.3 |
| Installed medical applications? | 157 | 45.5 |
| Frequency of use | (N = 309) | % |
| Never | 142 | 46.0 |
| Rarely | 67 | 21.7 |
| Sometimes | 81 | 26.2 |
| Always | 19 | 6.1 |
| Reasons for usea | No (n = 179) | % |
| Drug information | 125 | 69.8 |
| Clinical score systems (coma scale, APACHE, pain score …) | 33 | 18.4 |
| Disease diagnosis | 101 | 56.4 |
| Procedure documentation | 42 | 23.5 |
| Access medical web sites | 76 | 42.5 |
| Review guideline and protocol related to healthcare | 61 | 34.1 |
| Patients’ education materials | 40 | 22.3 |
| Others | 12 | 6.7 |
a--data are not mutually exclusive