An international comparison of physicians' judgments of outcome rates of cardiac procedures and attitudes toward risk, uncertainty, justifiability, and regret

Medical Decision Making

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 131-140

  Poses, Roy M ^a   De Saintonge, D Mark Chaput ^b   Mcclish, Donna K ^b   Smith, Wally R ^b   Huber, Elizabeth C ^b   Clemo, F Lynne W ^b   Schmitt, Brian P ^b   Alexander Forti, Donna ^b   Racht, Edward M ^b   Colenda III, Christopher C ^b   Centor, Robert M ^b  

^a MEMORIAL HOSPITAL OF RHODE ISLAND   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Cardiac procedures; Imperfect agency hypothesis; International comparison; Judgments; Outcomes; Practice patterns; Risk attitudes; Uncertainty hypothesis

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HUMAN; MALPRACTICE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL LIABILITY; MEDICAL PRACTICE; MORTALITY; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PROGNOSIS; TRANSLUMINAL CORONARY ANGIOPLASTY; TREATMENT PLANNING; UNITED KINGDOM; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0031895213     PISSN: 0272989X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0272989X9801800201     Document Type: Article

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