The application of foraging theory to the information searching behaviour of general practitioners

BMC Family Practice

Volumn 12, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Dwairy, Mai ^a   Dowell, Anthony C ^a   Stahl, Jean Claude ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^b MUSEUM OF NEW ZEALAND TE PAPA TONGAREWA   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Evidence based medicine; General Practitioners; Information Foraging; Information Seeking Behavior; Questionnaires.

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HUMAN; INFORMATION SEEKING; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY;

GENERAL PRACTITIONERS; HUMANS; INFORMATION SEEKING BEHAVIOR; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY;

EID: 80052032522     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712296     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2296-12-90     Document Type: Article

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