Finding the answers in primary care: Information seeking by rural and nonrural clinicians

Studies in Health Technology and Informatics

Volumn 107, Issue , 2004, Pages 1133-1137

  Gorman, Paul N ^a   Yao, Patricia ^a   Seshadri, Veena ^a  

^a OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Information needs; information seeking; rural primary care

Indexed keywords

DIGITAL LIBRARIES;

BACKGROUND INFORMATION; FOLLOW UP; INFORMATION NEED; INFORMATION RESOURCE; INFORMATION SEEKING; KNOWLEDGE RESOURCE; PRIMARY CARE; RESOURCE USE; RURAL PRIMARY CARE; STATISTICALLY SIGNIFICANT DIFFERENCE;

INFORMATION USE;

ARTICLE; BOOK; DATA BASE; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HEALTH SERVICE; INFORMATION SERVICE; LIBRARY; MEDICAL RECORD; NURSE PRACTITIONER; PHYSICIAN ASSISTANT; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RURAL HEALTH CARE; UNITED STATES; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

DATABASES; INFORMATION SERVICES; LIBRARIES, DIGITAL; LIBRARIES, MEDICAL; MEDICAL RECORDS; NURSE PRACTITIONERS; OREGON; PHYSICIAN ASSISTANTS; PHYSICIANS, FAMILY; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; QUESTIONNAIRES; REFERENCE BOOKS, MEDICAL; RURAL HEALTH SERVICES; URBAN HEALTH SERVICES;

EID: 21644488569     PISSN: 09269630     EISSN: 18798365     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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