Attitudes and skills of Hong Kong Chinese medicine practitioners towards computerization in practice: A cluster analysis

Medical Informatics and the Internet in Medicine

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 55-68

  Chan, Moon Fai ^a   Day, Mary C ^a   Suen, Lorna K P ^a   Tse, Sonny H M ^a   Tong, T F ^a  

^a HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Chinese medicine practitioners; Cluster analysis; Computerization

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; CHINESE; CHINESE MEDICINE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTINUING EDUCATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HEALTH PRACTITIONER; HONG KONG; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RATING SCALE; SKILL;

ADULT; ATTITUDE TO COMPUTERS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HONG KONG; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICINE, CHINESE TRADITIONAL; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSICIANS; PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE; QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 19044390114     PISSN: 14639238     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14639230400026939     Document Type: Article

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