Hezekiah Oluwasanmi Library, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Osun State, Nigeria.
Health Info Libr J. 2011 Dec;28(4):313-20. doi: 10.1111/j.1471-1842.2011.00962.x.
To determine the extent, purpose, determinants and the impact of the utilization of Internet medical databases among the respondents.
A descriptive cross sectional survey of 540 randomly selected physicians at the two tertiary health institutions in Osun State, south west, Nigeria.
A total of 444 (82.2%) physicians completed the questionnaires. All the respondents have used the internet medical databases within the last 4 weeks of the study. Majority, (53.8%) used the internet resources at least once in 2 weeks, while 12.2% used the resources every day. The online resources are mainly sought for Routine patient care and for Research purposes. pubmed (70.3%), hinari (69.0%), and Free medical journals (60.1%) are the frequently used online databases/digital archives. The internet resources has positively impacted the Clinical practice (40.0%) and Research output (65.5%) of the physicians.
There had been considerable increase in the extent and quality of utilization of online medical databases which has positively impacted on the Clinical practice and Research output of the physicians. Ease of finding the needed information and the availability of evidence based resources are the major determinants of the databases utilized.
确定受访者使用互联网医学数据库的程度、目的、决定因素和影响。
对尼日利亚西南部奥孙州的两家三级医疗机构的 540 名随机选择的医生进行描述性横断面调查。
共有 444 名（82.2%）医生完成了问卷。所有受访者在研究的过去 4 周内都使用过互联网医学数据库。大多数人（53.8%）每两周至少使用一次互联网资源，而 12.2%的人每天都使用。在线资源主要用于常规患者护理和研究目的。pubmed（70.3%）、hinari（69.0%）和免费医学期刊（60.1%）是常用的在线数据库/数字档案。互联网资源对医生的临床实践（40.0%）和研究成果（65.5%）产生了积极影响。
在线医学数据库的使用程度和质量都有了相当大的提高，这对医生的临床实践和研究成果产生了积极影响。易于找到所需信息和提供基于证据的资源是决定使用数据库的主要因素。
