Personal digital assistant usage among undergraduate medical students: Exploring trends, barriers, and the advent of smartphones

Journal of the Medical Library Association

Volumn 98, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 157-160

  Chatterley, Trish ^a   Chojecki, Dagmara ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCESS TO INFORMATION; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO COMPUTERS; CANADA; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; HUMAN; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INFORMATION SEEKING; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL STUDENT; MICROCOMPUTER; MOBILE PHONE; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

ACCESS TO INFORMATION; ALBERTA; ATTITUDE TO COMPUTERS; CELLULAR PHONE; COMPUTERS, HANDHELD; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; DATA COLLECTION; EDUCATION, MEDICAL, UNDERGRADUATE; FOCUS GROUPS; HUMANS; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; INFORMATION SEEKING BEHAVIOR; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; STUDENTS, MEDICAL;

EID: 77952112480     PISSN: 15365050     EISSN: 15589439     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3163/1536-5050.98.2.008     Document Type: Article

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