The value of clinical judgement analysis for improving the quality of doctors' prescribing decisions

Medical Education

Volumn 36, Issue 8, 2002, Pages 770-780

  Denig, Petra ^a,d   Wahlström, Rolf ^b   De Saintonge, Mark Chaput ^c   Haaijer Ruskamp, Flora ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^c ST BARTHOLOMEW S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^d Department of Clinical Pharmacology ^*

Author keywords

Clinical competence; Decision making; Physicians, family standards; Prescription, drugs standards

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COGNITION; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HUMAN; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; PRESCRIPTION; PROFESSIONAL STANDARD;

CLINICAL COMPETENCE; DECISION MAKING; HUMANS; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; PHYSICIANS, FAMILY; PRESCRIPTIONS, DRUG;

EID: 0036038731     PISSN: 03080110     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2923.2002.01202.x     Document Type: Article

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