Few rural general practitioners use the Internet frequently in regard to patient care

New Zealand Medical Journal

Volumn 118, Issue 1212, 2005, Pages

  Janes, Ron ^a,b,c   Arroll, Bruce ^a   Buetow, Stephen ^a   Coster, Gregor ^a,b   McCormick, Ross ^a   Hague, Iain ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^b The Institute of Rural Health   (New Zealand)

^c NONE   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCESS TO INFORMATION; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COMPETENCE; COMPUTER; CONSULTATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HEALTH SURVEY; HOME; HUMAN; INTERNET; MALE; MEDICAL PRACTICE; NEW ZEALAND; PATIENT CARE; POSTAL MAIL; PREDICTION; PREVALENCE; PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RURAL AREA; WORK; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; GENERAL PRACTICE; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; RURAL HEALTH CARE; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

COMPUTER LITERACY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FAMILY PRACTICE; HUMANS; INTERNET; LOGISTIC MODELS; NEW ZEALAND; PATIENT CARE; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; PHYSICIANS, FAMILY; QUESTIONNAIRES; RURAL HEALTH SERVICES;

EID: 21844439535     PISSN: 11758716     EISSN: 11758716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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