Information seeking for making evidence-informed decisions: A social network analysis on the staff of a public health department in Canada

BMC Health Services Research

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Yousefi Nooraie, Reza ^a   Dobbins, Maureen ^a   Brouwers, Melissa ^a   Wakefield, Patricia ^b  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Information seeking; Knowledge translation; Public health units; Social network analysis

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANADA; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DECISION MAKING; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; HUMAN; INFORMATION SEEKING; PUBLIC HEALTH; QUESTIONNAIRE; SOCIAL SUPPORT;

CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DECISION MAKING; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; HUMANS; INFORMATION SEEKING BEHAVIOR; ONTARIO; PUBLIC HEALTH; QUESTIONNAIRES; SOCIAL SUPPORT;

EID: 84860996635     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726963     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6963-12-118     Document Type: Article

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