Are decisions taken by health care professionals rational? A non systematic review of experimental and quasi experimental literature

Health Policy

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 71-81

  Freemantle, Nick ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Decision making; Regret theory; Research implementation

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HUMAN; REVIEW;

EID: 0030296303     PISSN: 01688510     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0168-8510(96)00837-8     Document Type: Article

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