Personal digital assistants (PDAs): Barriers but opportunities

Journal of Electronic Resources in Medical Libraries

Volumn 1, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 17-30

  Teolis, Marilyn G ^a   Dee, Cheryl R ^b   Todd, Andrew D ^c  

^a Saint Thomas Health Services   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^c LSCC UCF South Lake Joint Use Library   (United States)

Author keywords

Attitude to computers; Barriers; Clinical software; Handheld computers; PDAs; Personal digital assistants; Trends

Indexed keywords

EID: 58149225631     PISSN: 15424065     EISSN: 15424073     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J383v01n04_02     Document Type: Article

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