Physician attitudes towards evidence-based medicine in eastern Saudi Arabia

Annals of Saudi Medicine

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 425-428

  Al Baghlie, Nadira ^a,b   Al Almaie, Sameeh M ^a  

^a IMAM ABDULRAHMAN BIN FAISAL UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

^b NONE   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

Attitude; Evidence based medicine; Knowledge; Physicians

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; FEMALE; GENERAL HOSPITAL; HEALTH CENTER; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MALE; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; PREDICTION; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; SAUDI ARABIA; SCORING SYSTEM;

EID: 10644269482     PISSN: 02564947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5144/0256-4947.2004.425     Document Type: Article

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