Do family physicians retrieve synopses of clinical research previously read as email alerts?

Journal of Medical Internet Research

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2011, Pages

  Grad, Roland ^a   Pluye, Pierre ^a   Johnson Lafleur, Janique ^a   Granikov, Vera ^a   Shulha, Michael ^a   Bartlett, Gillian ^a   Marlow, Bernard ^b  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b Professional Development and Practice Support   (Canada)

Author keywords

Clinical email channels; Electronic mail; Information retrieval; Physicians, family

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; E-MAIL; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUESTIONNAIRE;

BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; COHORT STUDIES; DATA COLLECTION; ELECTRONIC MAIL; HUMANS; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; PHYSICIANS, FAMILY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUESTIONNAIRES;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84859898854     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14388871     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2196/jmir.1683     Document Type: Article

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