The role of organizational context and individual nurse characteristics in explaining variation in use of information technologies in evidence based practice

Implementation Science

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Doran, Diane ^a   Haynes, Brian R ^b   Estabrooks, Carole A ^c   Kushniruk, André ^d   Dubrowski, Adam ^e   Bajnok, Irmajean ^f   Hall, Linda M ^a   Li, Mingyang ^a   Carryer, Jennifer ^a   Jedras, Dawn ^b   Bai, Yu Qing Chris ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^e HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

^f Registered Nurses' Association of Ontario   (Canada)

Author keywords

Evidence based practice; Health information technologies; Information seeking; Mobile technology; Nursing informatics; Organizational context; PARIHS model; Personal digital assistant

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO COMPUTERS; BURNOUT; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HUMAN; INFORMATION SYSTEM; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MICROCOMPUTER; MIDDLE AGED; NURSE; ORGANIZATION; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; SOCIOECONOMICS; TIME;

ADULT; ATTITUDE TO COMPUTERS; BURNOUT, PROFESSIONAL; COMPUTERS, HANDHELD; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HUMANS; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NURSES; ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; TIME FACTORS;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84871695619     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17485908     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1748-5908-7-122     Document Type: Article

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