Table 3.
Most used medical and non-medical applications stratified by HCP categorya, b, c.
| Variable | Total | Medical student n = 23 |
Nurse n = 32 |
Resident n = 22 |
Attending physician n = 20 |
P value | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Most used medical applications | Medication formulary/drug reference apps | 81 (84.4) | 19 (82.6) | 25 (78.1) | 21 (100.0) | 16 (80.0) | 0.10 |
| Medical scoring systems/calculators | 64 (66.7) | 14 (60.9) | 18 (58.1) | 18 (81.8) | 14 (70.0) | 0.29 | |
| Disease diagnosis/management apps | 66 (69.5) | 16 (72.7) | 19 (61.3) | 19 (86.4) | 12 (60.0) | 0.18 | |
| Procedure documentation apps | 22 (26.2) | 2 (9.1) | 7 (33.3) | 9 (42.9) | 4 (20.0) | 0.06 | |
| Most used non-medical applications | Email access | 86 (91.5) | 21 (91.3) | 29 (93.6) | 18 (90.0) | 18 (90.0) | 0.92 |
| Messaging applications | 84 (87.5) | 21 (91.3) | 25 (80.7) | 20 (90.9) | 18 (90.0) | 0.67 | |
| Web access | 81 (84.4) | 20 (87.0) | 28 (87.5) | 15 (71.4) | 18 (90.0) | 0.38 | |
| Phone calls | 73 (76.0) | 16 (69.6) | 23 (74.2) | 16 (72.7) | 18 (90.0) | 0.41 | |
| Calendar | 72 (75.8) | 17 (73.9) | 25 (80.7) | 14 (66.7) | 16 (80.0) | 0.69 | |
| Social media applications | 63 (66.3) | 20 (87.0) | 20 (66.7) | 14 (63.6) | 9 (45.0) | 0.03 |
aCell counts may not add up to the raw total due to missing responses in the data.
bValid percentages were used.
cAnswers are not mutually exclusive, each respondent chose all that were applicable.