Efficacy of an Educational Web Site for Educating Physicians about Bioterrorism

Academic Emergency Medicine

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 143-148

  Chung, Sarita ^a   Mandl, Kenneth D ^a   Shannon, Michael ^a   Fleisher, Gary R ^a  

^a BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Bioterrorism; Media reports; Web based education

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL WARFARE; CLINICAL EDUCATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTINUING EDUCATION; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EDUCATION PROGRAM; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; EVALUATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERNET; MALE; MASS MEDIUM; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MULTICENTER STUDY; NORMAL HUMAN; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PEDIATRICIAN; PHYSICIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUESTIONNAIRE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RESIDENT; SCORING SYSTEM; SIMULATION;

EID: 0842282708     PISSN: 10696563     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1197/j.aem.2003.09.012     Document Type: Article

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