To compare pubmed clinical queries and uptodate in teaching information mastery to clinical residents: A crossover randomized controlled trial

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 8, 2011, Pages

  Ensan, Ladan Sayyah ^a   Faghankhani, Masoomeh ^a   Javanbakht, Anna ^a   Ahmadi, Seyed Foad ^a   Baradaran, Hamid Reza ^a  

^a TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCESS TO INFORMATION; ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; BIBLIOGRAPHIC DATABASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INTENTION TO TREAT ANALYSIS; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; MEDLINE; QUESTIONNAIRE; REFERENCE DATABASE; RESIDENCY EDUCATION; SATISFACTION; TIME; UPTODATE;

EID: 80051655150     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0023487     Document Type: Article

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