Educational games for health professionals

Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews

Volumn 2013, Issue 3, 2013, Pages

  Akl, Elie A ^a   Kairouz, Victor F ^b   Sackett, Kay M ^c   Erdley, William S ^d   Mustafa, Reem A ^e,f   Fiander, Michelle ^g   Gabriel, Carolynne ^h   Schünemann, Holger ^e  

^a AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF BEIRUT   (Lebanon)

^b UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^e MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI KANSAS CITY   (United States)

^g OTTAWA HOSPITAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^h Middlesex London Health Unit   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; EDUCATIONAL GAME; GAME; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HEALTH PRACTITIONER; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; KNOWLEDGE; LEARNING STYLE; PARAMEDICAL EDUCATION; PERFORMANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE; REVIEW; SATISFACTION; SKILL; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84994585277     PISSN: 14651858     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD006411.pub4     Document Type: Review

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