Responding to GPs' information resource needs: Implementation and evaluation of a complementary medicines information resource in Queensland general practice

BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine

Volumn 11, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Janamian, Tina ^a   Myers, Stephen P ^b   O'Rourke, Peter ^c   Eastwood, Heather ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b SOUTHERN CROSS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c QIMR BERGHOFER MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Australia)

^d Medical Education Services Australia (MESA)   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CLINICAL PRACTICE; DATA BASE; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTICE; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HERBAL MEDICINE; HUMAN; KNOWLEDGE; MALE; MEDICAL INFORMATION; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; EVALUATION; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INSTRUMENTATION; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT;

ADULT; AGED; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; COMPLEMENTARY THERAPIES; DATA COLLECTION; EVALUATION STUDIES AS TOPIC; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTICE; GENERAL PRACTITIONERS; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; QUEENSLAND; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80053175633     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726882     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6882-11-77     Document Type: Article

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