Rural surgeons' attitudes towards and usage of evidence-based medicine in rural surgical practice

Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 678-683

  Kitto, Simon C ^a,b,c,d   Peller, Jennifer C ^a   Villanueva, Elmer V ^d   Gruen, Russell L ^d   Smith, Julian A ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c ST MICHAEL'S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^d MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

attitudes and training; evidence based medicine; rural; surgical practice

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; HUMAN; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RURAL AREA; SURGEON; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE;

ADULT; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; DIFFUSION OF INNOVATION; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; FEMALE; GENERAL SURGERY; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ONTARIO; PHYSICIANS; RURAL HEALTH SERVICES;

EID: 79961027048     PISSN: 13561294     EISSN: 13652753     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2753.2011.01695.x     Document Type: Article

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