The Internet and access to evidence: How are nurses positioned?

Journal of Advanced Nursing

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 73-81

  Estabrooks, Carole A ^a,b   O'Leary, Katherine A ^a   Ricker, Kathryn L ^a   Humphrey, Charles K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b INSTITUTE FOR CLINICAL EVALUATIVE SCIENCES   (Canada)

Author keywords

Evidence based practice; Information seeking; Internet use; Knowledge utilization; Nursing; Physicians; Research utilization

Indexed keywords

ACCESS TO INFORMATION; ADULT; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; E-MAIL; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERNET; MALE; MEDICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; NURSE; WORKPLACE; ATTITUDE TO COMPUTERS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; STATISTICS; TEACHING; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

ATTITUDE TO COMPUTERS; COMPUTER-ASSISTED INSTRUCTION; HUMANS; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; INTERNET; NURSES;

EID: 0037490191     PISSN: 03092402     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2648.2003.02581.x     Document Type: Article

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