Use of the Internet for health information by physicians for patient care in a teaching hospital in Ibadan, Nigeria

Table 4 Use of Databases for health information by physicians in Ibadan, Nigeria

Variable	House officers (N = 45)		Medical Officers (N = 23)		Registrars (N = 104)		Total (N = 172)
	No	%	No	%	No	%	No	%
Ever searched a database
Yes	32	71.1	16	69.6	83	79.8	131	76.2
No	13	28.9	7	30.4	21	20.2	41	23.8
Which of these databases did you search the last time?
MEDLINE/PUBMED	32	71.1	16	69.6	82	78.8	130	75.6
Cochrane	0	0.0	0	0.0	1	1.0	1	0.6
No Response	13	28.9	7	30.4	21	20.2	41	23.8
Did you obtain relevant health information from the database for patient care?
Yes	25	55.6	15	65.2	71	68.3	111	64.5
No	20	44.4	8	34.8	33	31.7	61	35.5
Online Evidence Based Medicine sources ever searched.
Cochrane	2	4.4	2	8.7	8	7.7	12	7.0
Up-to-date	1	2.2	0	0.0	8	7.7	9	5.3
Clinical Evidence	7	15.7	7	30.4	13	12.5	27	15.7
Others	2	4.4	0	0.0	17	16.3	19	11.0
No Response	33	73.3	14	60.9	58	55.8	105	61.0
Total	45	100	23	100	104	100	172	100