Attitude, awareness and practice of evidence based medicine among consultant physicians in Western region of Saudi Arabia

Saudi Medical Journal

Volumn 27, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 1887-1893

  Al Omari, Fahad K ^a   Al Asmary, Saeed M ^a  

^a AL HADA ARMED FORCES HOSPITAL   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCESS TO INFORMATION; ADULT; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CONTINUING EDUCATION; CRONBACH ALPHA COEFFICIENT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERNAL CONSISTENCY; INTERNET; MALE; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; NORMAL HUMAN; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE; PUBLIC HOSPITAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RELIABILITY; SAUDI ARABIA; TIME; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSICIAN;

CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSICIANS; QUESTIONNAIRES; SAUDI ARABIA;

EID: 39049150948     PISSN: 03795284     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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