Medical heuristics: The silent adjudicators of clinical practice

Annals of Internal Medicine

Volumn 124, Issue 1 I, 1996, Pages 56-62

  McDonald, Clement J ^b  

^a REGENSTRIEF INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL PRACTICE; INTERNAL MEDICINE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL PRACTICE; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

EID: 0030030004     PISSN: 00034819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7326/0003-4819-124-1_part_1-199601010-00009     Document Type: Review

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