A systematic literature review of the information-seeking behavior of dentists in developed countries

Journal of Dental Education

Volumn 80, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 569-577

  Isham, Amy ^a   Bettiol, Silvana ^a   Hoang, Ha ^a   Crocombe, Leonard ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Clinical decision making; Dentists; Evidence based dentistry; Information seeking behavior

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; CLINICAL PRACTICE; DENTISTRY; DEVELOPED COUNTRY; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; ENGLISH (LANGUAGE); EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE CENTER; HUMAN; INFORMATION SEEKING; MEDLINE; ORGANISATION FOR ECONOMIC CO-OPERATION AND DEVELOPMENT; PERCEPTION; SCOPUS; SKILL; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TOOTH; VALIDITY; WEB OF SCIENCE; DENTIST; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; REVIEW;

DENTISTS; DEVELOPED COUNTRIES; INFORMATION SEEKING BEHAVIOR;

EID: 84969962301     PISSN: 00220337     EISSN: 19307837     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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