Internet use for information seeking in clinical practice: A cross-sectional survey among French general practitioners

International Journal of Medical Informatics

Volumn 81, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 493-499

  Bernard, Erik ^a,b   Arnould, Michel ^a   Saint Lary, Olivier ^a,b   Duhot, Didier ^a   Hebbrecht, Gilles ^a  

^a French Society of General Medicine   (France)

^b LABORATOIRE DES SCIENCES DU CLIMAT ET DE L ENVIRONNEMENT   (France)

Author keywords

Evidence based medicine; Family practice; Information storage and retrieval; Internet; Primary health care

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL INFORMATION; CLINICAL PRACTICES; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; FAMILY PRACTICE; GENERAL PRACTITIONERS; INFORMATION OVERLOADS; INFORMATION SEEKING; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; INTERNET ACCESS; INTERNET USE; LANGUAGE BARRIERS; MEDICAL INFORMATION; ONLINE QUESTIONNAIRE; PATIENT CARE; PRIMARY HEALTHCARE; RELEVANT DOCUMENTS;

BIOINFORMATICS; INFORMATION USE; SURVEYS;

INTERNET;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; FRANCE; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; INTERNET; LANGUAGE; MEDICAL INFORMATION; PATIENT CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; WEB BROWSER;

CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; FRANCE; GENERAL PRACTITIONERS; HUMANS; INTERNET; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 84862124583     PISSN: 13865056     EISSN: 18728243     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijmedinf.2012.02.001     Document Type: Article

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