What factors affect the information behaviour of South African doctors and nurses?
| Cross-sectional survey | What are the tasks performed by doctors and nurses in tertiary and central hospitals? What is the information needs of tertiary and central hospital-based doctors and nurses? What are the sources of information and communication channels preferred by tertiary and central hospital-based doctors and nurses? What is the attitude of tertiary and central hospital-based doctors and nurses towards the use of evidence for patient care? What are the intervening variables that may hinder the seeking of information by doctors and nurses in tertiary and central hospitals?
| Percentages, frequency tables, histograms and pie charts will be used to present the results and (mean, median, percentages, frequency, etc) to describe the raw data and allow for the discovery of patterns
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