Attitude and self-reported practice regarding prognostication in a national sample of internists

Archives of Internal Medicine

Volumn 158, Issue 21, 1998, Pages 2389-2395

  Christakis, Nicholas A ^a,c,d   Iwashyna, Theodore J ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^c The University of Chicago   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; STRESS; TERMINAL DISEASE;

EID: 0032561679     PISSN: 00039926     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archinte.158.21.2389     Document Type: Article

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