Use of smartphone and perception towards the usefulness and practicality of its medical applications among healthcare workers in Saudi Arabia

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 appliences^a
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 use^a	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