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Dear colleagues!

This survey is conducted by the American International Health Alliance (AIHA) as part of the regular monitoring and evaluation of its Learning Resource Center (LRC) project. It is intended to assess information needs, determine main sources of medical information, identify major barriers hindering information access, and to evaluate the recognition and implementation of the LRC project. This information will help us assess the effect of the LRC project on health care improvement in different regions.

The archive file named LRC_Visitors_Survey_Jan08.zip includes the survey form (LRC_visitors_survey07.doc, in Russian) for LRC visitors – your colleagues, guests, patients, and any other visitors applying to your LRC for information and/or help. The data from this forms should be entered in the spreadsheet (Visitors_Data.xls) that can be found in the same archive. The desirable number of forms filled should be from 10 to 30.

Note that two questions require input in percent, with the sum of all answers being equal to 100%.

Please send filled forms to me (i.shumilova@aiha.ru) by April 25, 2008. If you have any questions, please contact me.

Thank you!
Irina Shumilova

Since 1995 AIHA established more than 150 LRCs in 22 countries of Central and Eastern Europe and Former Soviet Union, and 3 LRCs in Africa (Uganda and Zambia). Currently AIHA supports 3 centers in Africa and 9 in Russia. Several similar centers in the countries of the FSU were opened without any financial support from AIHA. LRC Network of graduated LRCs includes 60 participants from 19 countries (list of all members at http://lrcnetwork.org/en/views/lrcnml). LRC mailing list (lrcnetwork@googlegroups.com) includes 350 subscribers. 20 respondents from 12 countries participated in this survey.

List of respondent organizations:

Information technology and health care partnerships: training medical professionals in Central and Eastern Europe and the New Independent States
Daniels, J.K.
In: Professional Communication Conference, 1999. IPCC 99. Communication Jazz: Improvising the New International Communication Culture. Proceedings. 1999 IEEE International
URL: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/freeabs_all.jsp?arnumber=799148

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