Qualified doctor and medical students' use of resources for accessing information: What is used and why?

Health Information and Libraries Journal

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 204-214

  Brennan, Nicola ^a   Edwards, Sarah ^b   Kelly, Narcie ^c   Miller, Alice ^d   Harrower, Lucy ^e   Mattick, Karen ^c  

^a PLYMOUTH UNIVERSITY PENINSULA SCHOOLS OF MEDICINE AND DENTISTRY   (United Kingdom)

^b NORTHERN DEVON HEALTHCARE NHS TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EXETER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

^d TORBAY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^e ROYAL DEVON AND EXETER NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Access to information; Doctors, information seeking behaviour; Qualitative research; Recall, students, medical

Indexed keywords

HUMAN; INFORMATION SEEKING; LIBRARY; MEDICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; MEDICAL STUDENT; PHYSICIAN; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; UTILIZATION;

HEALTH INFORMATION EXCHANGE; HUMANS; INFORMATION SEEKING BEHAVIOR; LIBRARIES; PHYSICIANS; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; STUDENTS, MEDICAL;

EID: 84906494844     PISSN: 14711834     EISSN: 14711842     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/hir.12072     Document Type: Article

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