Discrepancy between Medical Decisions for Individual Patients and for Groups

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 322, Issue 16, 1990, Pages 1162-1164

  Redelmeier, Donald A ^a   Tversky, Amos ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HUMAN; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH;

EID: 0025307780     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJM199004193221620     Document Type: Editorial

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