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Article: Family physicians' interests in special features of electronic publication
- Article from:
- Journal of the Medical Library Association
- Article date:
- July 1, 2003
- Author:
CopyrightCopyright Medical Library Association Jul 2003. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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Objective: Because many of the medical journals read by family physicians now have an electronic version, the authors conducted a survey to determine the interest of family physicians in specific features of electronic journal publications.
Setting and Participants: We surveyed 175 family physicians randomly selected from the American Academy of Family Physicians.
Results: The response rate was 63%. About half of family physicians reported good to excellent computer proficiency, and about one quarter used online journals sometimes or often. Many respondents reported high interest in having links to: an electronic medical text (48% for original articles, 56% for review articles), articles' ...