Same patient, different advice: A study into why doctors vary

Archives of Disease in Childhood

Volumn 88, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 497-502

  Rakow, T ^a   Bull, C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

^b HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CARDIOLOGY; CASE REPORT; CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DEATH; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; GOOD HEART FUNCTION; HEALTH STATUS; HEART FUNCTION; HUMAN; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT COUNSELING; PEDIATRIC SURGERY; PHYSICIAN; POOR HEART FUNCTION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; QUALITY OF LIFE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SURVIVAL;

CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DISEASE MANAGEMENT; GREAT BRITAIN; HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; LINEAR MODELS; MEDICAL STAFF, HOSPITAL; PROGNOSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0037683132     PISSN: 00039888     EISSN: 14682044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/adc.88.6.497     Document Type: Article

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