Physicians answer more clinical questions and change clinical decisions more often with synthesized evidence: A randomized trial in primary care

Annals of Family Medicine

Volumn 3, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 507-513

  Alper, Brian S ^a,b,c,e,f   White, David S ^c   Ge, Bin ^d  

^a DynaMed   (United States)

^b University of Missouri   (United States)

^c Health Sciences Center ^*  (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^e Dynamic Medical Information Systems   (United States)

^f Dynamic Medical Information Systems   (United States)

Author keywords

Answering clinical questions; Clinical reference; Databases; Evidence based medicine; Medical decision making; Medical informatics; Systematic literature surveillance

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEALTH CARE; HUMAN; INTERNET; NORMAL HUMAN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PHYSICIAN; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

DATABASES, FACTUAL; DECISION MAKING; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; FAMILY PRACTICE; INTERNET; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE;

EID: 24644478816     PISSN: 15441709     EISSN: 15441717     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1370/afm.370     Document Type: Article

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