Table 3.

Smartphone medical app use at referral hospitals among physicians, 2019 (N=417).

Medical app types	Education level
	General practitioner, n	Resident, n	Specialist, n	Total, n (%)
Disease diagnosis	134	84	43	261 (62.6%)
Literature search	120	67	31	218 (52.3%)
Browsing	113	54	29	196 (47.0%)
HISa clients	106	54	35	195 (46.8%)
Clinical score system	104	71	34	209 (50.1%)
Medical training	104	59	31	194 (46.5)
Drug reference	97	48	28	173 (41.5)
Clinical communication	87	58	23	168 (40.3%)
Procedure documentation	73	51	28	152 (36.5%)

^aHIS: health information system.