PHYSICIANS PATTERNS OF USING A COMPUTERIZED COLLECTION OF GUIDELINES FOR PRIMARY-CARE

Authors
JOUSIMAA J KUNNAMO I MAKELA M
Citation
J. Jousimaa et al., PHYSICIANS PATTERNS OF USING A COMPUTERIZED COLLECTION OF GUIDELINES FOR PRIMARY-CARE, International journal of technology assessment in health care, 14(3), 1998, pp. 484-493
Citations number
27
Categorie Soggetti
Public, Environmental & Occupation Heath","Medical Informatics","Health Care Sciences & Services
Journal title
International journal of technology assessment in health care → ACNP
ISSN journal
02664623
Volume
14
Issue
3
Year of publication
1998
Pages
484 - 493
Database
ISI
SICI code
0266-4623(1998)14:3<484:PPOUAC>2.0.ZU;2-F
Abstract
Physician's Desk Reference and Database is a Finnish collection of com puterized primary care guidelines. The program has been in clinical us e since 1989, For this study, a function producing a log file of all s earches was added to the program, Two hundred twenty-seven users retur ned log files that contained 15,267 searches, The users made 3.12 (ran ge 1-10.4) searches per day, The average time needed to find and read an article was 4.9 minutes. Sufficient facts were found in 71% of the searches, Dermatology was the most popular field of interest, followed by infectious diseases and cardiology.