Low-income countries' orthopaedic information needs: Challenges and opportunities

Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research

Volumn 468, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 2598-2603

  Doughty, Kathryn ^a   Rothman, Linda ^a   Johnston, Luke ^b   Le, Kim ^c   Wu, Joanna ^d   Howard, Andrew ^a,c  

^a HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^d MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICA; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CONFERENCE PAPER; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; INTERNET; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MEDICAL LITERATURE; ORTHOPEDICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLICATION; SURGEON; TREND STUDY; ACCESS TO INFORMATION; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO COMPUTERS; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BIBLIOMETRICS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; ECONOMICS; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; JOURNAL IMPACT FACTOR; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; METHODOLOGY; ORTHOPEDIC SURGERY; PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

ACCESS TO INFORMATION; AFRICA; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; ATTITUDE TO COMPUTERS; BIBLIOMETRICS; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEALTH SERVICES NEEDS AND DEMAND; HUMANS; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; INTERNET; JOURNAL IMPACT FACTOR; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; ORTHOPEDIC PROCEDURES; PERIODICALS AS TOPIC; PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT; PROGRAM EVALUATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 77957355991     PISSN: 0009921X     EISSN: 15281132     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11999-010-1365-x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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