Opening Pandora's box: The unpredictability of reassurance by a normal test result

British Medical Journal

Volumn 313, Issue 7053, 1996, Pages 329-332

  McDonald, I G ^a,b   Daly, J ^c   Jelinek, V M ^a   Panetta, F ^d   Gutman, J M ^a  

^a ST VINCENT S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b Ctr for the Stud of Clin Practice   (Australia)

^c LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d ALFRED HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPREHENSION; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART DISEASE; HEART MURMUR; HUMAN; MALE; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECALL; SOCIAL ASPECT; SYMPTOM;

EID: 0029808339     PISSN: 09598146     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.313.7053.329     Document Type: Article

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