How complementary and alternative medicine practitioners use PubMed

Journal of Medical Internet Research

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2007, Pages

  Willinsky, John ^a   Quint Rapoport, Mia ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Complementary and alternative medicine; Information management; Information retrieval; Literacy; Open access; Professional development; PubMed; Research dissemination

Indexed keywords

ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE; ARTICLE; CHIROPRACTIC; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA BASE; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE MANAGEMENT; HEALTH PRACTITIONER; HOMEOPATHY; HUMAN; MASSAGE; MEDICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; MEDICAL PRACTICE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MESH HEADING; NORMAL HUMAN; ADULT; CANADA; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; COMPUTER INTERFACE; EDUCATION; FEMALE; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; IN SERVICE TRAINING; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MALE; MEDLINE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; QUESTIONNAIRE; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

ADULT; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; BRITISH COLUMBIA; CHIROPRACTIC; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; COMPLEMENTARY THERAPIES; FEMALE; HOMEOPATHY; HUMANS; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; INSERVICE TRAINING; MALE; MASSAGE; MIDDLE AGED; PUBMED; QUESTIONNAIRES; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 34447638149     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14388871     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2196/jmir.9.2.e19     Document Type: Article

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