Factors Associated with Success in Searching MEDLINE and Applying Evidence to Answer Clinical Questions

• Published in: Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA Vol. 9; no. 3; pp. 283 - 293
• Main Author: Hersh, W. R.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England Oxford University Press 01.05.2002; American Medical Informatics Association
• Subjects: Adult; Clinical Medicine; Computer Literacy; Female; Humans; Information Storage and Retrieval - statistics & numerical data; Male; MEDLINE; Nurse Practitioners - education; Original Investigation; Students, Medical; Students, Nursing

This study sought to assess the ability of medical and nurse practitioner students to use MEDLINE to obtain evidence for answering clinical questions and to identify factors associated with the successful answering of questions. A convenience sample of medical and nurse practitioner students was rec...