Extent and determinants of error in doctors' prognoses in terminally ill patients: Prospective cohort study

British Medical Journal

Volumn 320, Issue 7233, 2000, Pages 469-472

  Christakis, Nicholas A ^a   Lamont, Elizabeth B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; EXPERIENCE; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HOSPICE; HUMAN; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; OUTPATIENT CARE; PATIENT REFERRAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURVIVAL TIME; TERMINALLY ILL PATIENT; UNITED STATES;

CANCER; CHICAGO; CLINICAL APPROACH/SOURCE; DEATH AND EUTHANASIA; EMPIRICAL APPROACH;

CLINICAL COMPETENCE; COHORT STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICAL ERRORS; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL RATE; TERMINAL CARE; TERMINALLY ILL;

EID: 0034685236     PISSN: 09598146     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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