Attitudes and barriers to evidence-based guidelines among UK occupational physicians

Occupational Medicine

Volumn 59, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 586-592

  Adeodu, Adenrele ^a   Agius, Raymond ^b   Madan, Ira ^c  

^a DERRIFORD HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^c KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Attitudes; Evidence based guidelines; Evidence based medicine; Occupational physicians

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; CHI SQUARE TEST; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CRONBACH ALPHA COEFFICIENT; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; HUMAN; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INTERNET; KRUSKAL WALLIS TEST; MEDICAL SOCIETY; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; OCCUPATIONAL MEDICINE; OCCUPATIONAL PHYSICIAN; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; UNITED KINGDOM; WORKPLACE; WORKSHOP;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; GREAT BRITAIN; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; INTERNET; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH PHYSICIANS; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; QUESTIONNAIRES; WORKPLACE;

EID: 70849124427     PISSN: 09627480     EISSN: 14718405     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/occmed/kqp121     Document Type: Article

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