Use of point-of-care online clinical evidence by junior and senior doctors in New South Wales public hospitals

Internal Medicine Journal

Volumn 35, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 399-404

  Westbrook, Johanna I ^a   Gosling, A S ^b   Westbrook, M T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Decision support system; Evidence based medicine; Information system; Medical informatics; Survey

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COMPUTER SYSTEM; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; MEDICAL CARE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; MEDICAL PRACTICE; MEDICAL STAFF; ONLINE ANALYSIS; PATIENT CARE; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HOSPITAL; TRAINING; UNITED KINGDOM;

ADULT; ATTITUDE TO COMPUTERS; DATABASES, BIBLIOGRAPHIC; DECISION MAKING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; FEMALE; HOSPITALS, PUBLIC; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEW SOUTH WALES; ONLINE SYSTEMS; PATIENT CARE; PHYSICIANS; POINT-OF-CARE SYSTEMS; QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 21444447790     PISSN: 14440903     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1445-5994.2005.00836.x     Document Type: Article

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