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| Title: | Utilization of online database for medical information: a nationwide survey of physicians at regional hospitals in Taiwan |
| Authors: | Chiu, YW;Lo, HL;Shih, YH;Ting, HW;Weng, YH;Kuo, KN |
| Contributors: | Division of Health Services and Preventive Medicine |
| Abstract: | Background: In Taiwan, physicians at regional hospitals deal with broader medical problems in clinical services. To obtain maximum resources available, accessing medical information or databases via the internet has become a critical skill for improving healthcare quality. Objectives: To identify medical information searching patterns, behavior and characteristics of physicians in using online databases. Methods: A structured questionnaire survey was conducted at 61 regional hospitals in 2007. We collected 591 returns from physicians. With invalid answers excluded, 457 returns were analyzed. Multivariate logistic regression model was used to determine the subjects’ characteristics associated with the preferences of online databases. Results: More than 70% of physicians reported using portal websites, online databases, and electronic journals for searching medical information. However, for the textbooks, they used printed publications more than electronic ones (66.15% vs. 46.24%). More than 90% of the hospitals provided original article online databases, such as MEDLINE, PubMed and ProQuest. Up to 95% of the physicians utilized these databases during the past six months. Only 51.20% used The Cochrane Library. Physicians under 49 years tended to use online databases more than their older colleagues (p < 0.05). Physicians with faculty positions used online databases more frequently (OR = 2.51, p < 0.05). Physicians with knowledge of The Cochrane Library being available in their hospital showed a higher tendency in online database utilization than others (po0.05). Physicians who used MEDLINE (OR = 4.17, p < 0.05) or PubMed (OR = 3.86, p < 0.05) more than nine times per month during the past six months also used other online databases more. Conclusions: This survey illustrates the informationsearching behavior amongst physicians at regional hospitals in Taiwan, and their preferences of online databases. The data shows that almost all physicians had access to the original article via online databases. Faculty position and younger age were more significant in frequent use. However, practice experience, administrative position, gender, education and professional specialty carried no significant difference. Physicians who knew The Cochrane Library or were frequent user of MEDLINE/PubMed had higher usage of online database. |
| Date: | 2008-10 |
| Relation: | The 16th Cochrane Colloquium. 2008 Oct. 3-7. |
| Link to: | http://www.imbi.uni-freiburg.de/OJS/cca/index.php?journal=cca&page=article&op=view&path[]=6910 |
| Appears in Collections: | [邱亞文(2005-2013)] 會議論文/會議摘要
[郭耿南(2003-2010)] 會議論文/會議摘要
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