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Information Horizons of Croatian Physicians

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Information Literacy in the Workplace (ECIL 2017)

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This paper looks into the information horizons of Croatian family medicine physicians and clinicians with the aim of determining whether they differ from the findings of previous studies. In this pilot-study we used a map drawing technique and follow-up interviews. The sample consisted of ten physicians: (five family medicine physicians and five clinicians) from Osijek, Croatia. Clinicians were interviewed in 2015 and family medicine physicians in 2017. Respondents were asked to place the information sources on mental maps according to their importance and frequency of usage. The results show that clinicians use more information sources than family medicine physicians, which is particularly true for online peer-reviewed sources. Younger physicians use a higher number of information sources than older physicians (they rely heavily on professional literature and peer advice). Viber group messaging was identified as a new channel of communication for family medicine physicians.

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  1. Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Osijek, Osijek, Croatia

    Kornelija Petr Balog

  2. City and University Library of Osijek, Osijek, Croatia

    Ivana Turk

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  1. Hacettepe University, Beytepe, Ankara, Turkey

    Serap Kurbanoğlu

  2. University of Paris-Est, Champs-sur-Marne, France

    Joumana Boustany

  3. University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia

    Sonja Špiranec

  4. University of California (UCLA), Los Angeles, California, USA

    Esther Grassian

  5. University of California (UCLA), Los Angeles, California, USA

    Diane Mizrachi

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    Loriene Roy

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Petr Balog, K., Turk, I. (2018). Information Horizons of Croatian Physicians. In: Kurbanoğlu, S., Boustany, J., Špiranec, S., Grassian, E., Mizrachi, D., Roy, L. (eds) Information Literacy in the Workplace. ECIL 2017. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 810. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-74334-9_51

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