Awareness and use of evidence-based medicine databases and cochrane library among physicians in croatia

Croatian Medical Journal

Volumn 51, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 157-164

  Novak, Katarina ^a   Miric, Dino ^b   Jurin, Ana ^c   Vukojevic, Katarina ^b   Aljinovic, Jure ^b   Caric, Ana ^b   Guic, Maja Marinovic ^b   Poljicanin, Ana ^b   Košta, Vana ^b   Rako, Dalibora ^b   Marušic, Ana ^b   Marušic, Matko ^b   Puljak, Livia ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL SPLIT   (Croatia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SPLIT   (Croatia)

^c Department of Anesthesiology   (Croatia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; COCHRANE LIBRARY; CROATIA; DATA BASE; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HUMAN; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INTERNET; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PHYSICIAN;

ADULT; CROATIA; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DATABASES, FACTUAL; EDUCATION, MEDICAL, CONTINUING; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; FAMILY PRACTICE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERNET; LIBRARIES, DIGITAL; MALE; MEDICAL STAFF, HOSPITAL; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS;

EID: 77953821781     PISSN: 03539504     EISSN: 13328166     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3325/cmj.2010.51.157     Document Type: Article

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