Medical Knowledge Overload: A Disturbing Trend for Physicians

Health Care Management Review

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 70-75

  Hunt, Richard E ^a   Newman, Richard G ^a  

^a ROCKHURST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Information; Information overload; Knowledge growth; Retrieval

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HUMAN; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INFORMATION SERVICE; MASS COMMUNICATION; PHYSICIAN; PUBLICATION; QUESTIONNAIRE; TIME; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

DIFFUSION OF INNOVATION; HUMANS; INFORMATION SERVICES; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; PERIODICALS; PHYSICIANS; QUESTIONNAIRES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0031498356     PISSN: 03616274     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00004010-199701000-00009     Document Type: Article

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