The application of foraging theory to the information searching behaviour of general practitioners

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>General Practitioners (GPs) employ strategies to identify and retrieve medical evidence for clinical decision making which take workload and time constraints into account. Optimal Foraging Theory (OFT) initially developed to study an...

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Main Authors: Dowell Anthony C, Dwairy Mai, Stahl Jean-Claude
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2011-08-01
Series:BMC Family Practice
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Online Access:http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2296/12/90