Determining where physical therapists get information to support clinical practice decisions

Health Information and Libraries Journal

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 35-48

  Fell, Dennis W ^a   Burnham, Judy F ^a   Dockery, Jon M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH ALABAMA   (United States)

Author keywords

Access to information; Information seeking behaviour; Information services; Physical therapy (specialty); Questionnaires

Indexed keywords

BIBLIOGRAPHIC DATABASE; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INFORMATION SEEKING; MEDLINE; PHYSIOTHERAPIST; PUBLICATION; UNITED STATES;

DATA COLLECTION; DATABASES, BIBLIOGRAPHIC; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; HUMANS; INFORMATION SEEKING BEHAVIOR; PERIODICALS AS TOPIC; PHYSICAL THERAPISTS; PUBMED; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84874015654     PISSN: 14711834     EISSN: 14711842     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/hir.12010     Document Type: Article

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