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Information Needs and Information-Seeking Behavior of Primary Care Physicians

Ana I. González-González, Martin Dawes, José Sánchez-Mateos, Rosario Riesgo-Fuertes, Esperanza Escortell-Mayor, Teresa Sanz-Cuesta and Tomás Hernández-Fernández
The Annals of Family Medicine July 2007, 5 (4) 345-352; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1370/afm.681
Ana I. González-González
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vol. 5 no. 4 345-352
DOI 
https://doi.org/10.1370/afm.681
PubMed 
17664501

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The Annals of Family Medicine
Print ISSN 
1544-1709
Online ISSN 
1544-1717
History 
  • Received for publication July 14, 2006
  • Revision received November 22, 2006
  • Accepted for publication January 8, 2007
  • Published online July 30, 2007.

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  1. Ana I. González-González, MD1,
  2. Martin Dawes, MBBS, DRCOG, MD2,
  3. José Sánchez-Mateos, MD1,
  4. Rosario Riesgo-Fuertes, MD1,
  5. Esperanza Escortell-Mayor, MD1,
  6. Teresa Sanz-Cuesta, MD1 and
  7. Tomás Hernández-Fernández, MD1
  1. 1Servicio Madrileño de la Salud, Madrid, Spain
  2. 2Family Medicine, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
  1. CORRESPONDING AUTHOR: Ana I. González-González, MD, Gerencia Atención Primaria Área, 10 de Madrid, Avda Juan de la Cierva s/n, 28902 Getafe, Madrid, Spain, agonzalez.gapm10{at}salud.madrid.org
  1. Abstracts describing preliminary results were published and presented at the following meetings: Congreso de Gestión Clínica, Hospital Vall d`Hebron, Barcelona, Spain, 2003 (oral presentation); 2nd International Conference of Evidence-Based Health Care Teachers & Developers, GIMBE, Palermo, Spain, 2003 (oral presentation); XI Colloquium Cochrane, Barcelona, Spain, 2003 (poster presentation); XXIV Congreso de la Sociedad Española de Medicina Familiar y Comunitaria, Sevilla, Spain, 2004 (oral presentation); and XXV Congreso de la Sociedad Española de Medicina Familiar y Comunitaria, Santiago de Compostela, 2005 (oral presentation). A manuscript describing just the methodology used in the study has been previously published: González-González AI, Escortell E, Hernández T, et al. Necesidades de información de los médicos de atención primaria: análisis de preguntas y su resolución. Aten Primaria. 2005;35(8):416–431.OpenUrl

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