Information Needs and Information-Seeking Behavior of Italian Neurologists: Exploratory Mixed Methods Study.

ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND:Current medical professions involve an extensive knowledge of the latest validated scientific data to implement disease diagnosis, therapeutic strategies, and patient care. Although clinicians can refer to a growing number and type of information sources to keep current with new scientific achievements, there are still various concerns about medical information validity, quality, and applicability into clinical practice. Novel strategies are required to identify physicians' real-life needs with the final aim to improve modern medical information delivery. OBJECTIVE:Our research used an innovative tool to collect real-time physician queries in order to investigate information needs and seeking behavior of Italian neurologists treating patients with multiple sclerosis (MS) and mig

SUBMITTER: Demergazzi S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7177431 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature