Searching PubMed for a broad subject area: How effective are palliative care clinicians in finding the evidence in their field?

Health Information and Libraries Journal

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 49-60

  Damarell, Raechel A ^a   Tieman, Jennifer J ^a  

^a FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Evidence based practice; Information storage and retrieval; Palliative care; PubMed

Indexed keywords

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MALE; MEDICAL SUBJECT HEADINGS; MEDLINE; MIDDLE AGED; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PHYSICIAN; PROCEDURES; PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; UTILIZATION;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; MALE; MEDICAL SUBJECT HEADINGS; MIDDLE AGED; PALLIATIVE CARE; PHYSICIANS; PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE; PUBMED;

EID: 84961211201     PISSN: 14711834     EISSN: 14711842     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/hir.12120     Document Type: Article

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