Health care workers in Africa access a broad range of topics using evidence-based online medical information

Margaret L. McNairy; Alysse G. Wurcel; Franklin Huang; Johanna P. Daily

doi:10.1080/17441692.2012.685488

Health care workers in Africa access a broad range of topics using evidence-based online medical information

Margaret L. McNairy, Alysse G. Wurcel, Franklin Huang, Johanna P. Daily

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Abstract

Health care workers (HCW) rely on Internet-based medical resources to obtain current evidence-based clinical guidelines. While such resources are being used with increasing frequency in developed countries, they have not been broadly employed in resource-limited settings (RLS). To investigate the feasibility and the types of medical content used by HCW in RLS, we studied one Internet-based medical resource used in the United States, (UpToDate

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	823-839
Number of pages	17
Journal	Global Public Health
Volume	7
Issue number	8
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/17441692.2012.685488
State	Published - Sep 1 2012

Keywords

Africa
Internet
Internet-based health information
evidence-based medicine
medical knowledge resources
resource-limited settings

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Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health

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