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Family physicians' interests in special features of electronic publication
Dario M Torre1, Scott M Wright, Renee F Wilson
1General Internal Medicine, Medical College of Wisconsin/Clement J. Zablocki VA Medical Center, 9200 West Wisconsin Avenue, Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53226, USA. dtorre@mcw.edu
Objective:
Because many of the medical journals read by family physicians now have an electronic version, the authors conducted a survey to determine the interest of family physicians in specific features of electronic journal publications.
Setting And Participants:
We surveyed 175 family physicians randomly selected from the American Academy of Family Physicians.
Results:
The response rate was 63%. About half of family physicians reported good to excellent computer proficiency, and about one quarter used online journals sometimes or often. Many respondents reported high interest in having links to: an electronic medical text (48% for original articles, 56% for review articles), articles' list of references (52% for original articles, 56% for review articles), and health-related Websites (48% for original and review articles).
Conclusion:
Primary care-oriented journals should consider the interests of family physicians when developing and offering electronic features for their readers.