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. 1997 Winter;22(1):70-5.

Medical knowledge overload: a disturbing trend for physicians

R E Hunt  1 , R G Newman
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  • PMID: 9058088

Medical knowledge overload: a disturbing trend for physicians

R E Hunt et al. Health Care Manage Rev. 1997 Winter.

Abstract

The article examines responses of more than 500 physicians questioned about the time available for reading professional journals over the past 5 years as well as their utilization of information retrieval systems. It also examines physicians' perceptions of professional medical sales personnel as medical information sources.

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