Is there a tension between doctors' duty of care and evidence-based medicine?

Health Care Analysis

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 277-287

  Rogers, Wendy A ^a  

^a FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Duty of care; Ethics; Evidence based medicine; Patient preferences

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL PRACTICE; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH SERVICE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL PRACTICE; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT SATISFACTION; REVIEW;

HEALTH CARE AND PUBLIC HEALTH;

CONFLICT OF INTEREST; ETHICS, MEDICAL; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; HUMANS; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE;

EID: 0037732616     PISSN: 10653058     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1022999724081     Document Type: Review

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