Absolute versus Relative Values: Effects on Family Practitioners and Psychiatrists

Southern Medical Journal

Volumn 96, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 452-457

  Neumann, Joseph K ^a   Olive, Kenneth E ^b  

^a Greene Valley Developmental Center   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Decision making; Ethics; Family practice; Medical; Psychiatry; Religion and medicine

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; DECISION MAKING; ETHICS; FAMILY MEDICINE; HUMAN; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL ETHICS; PSYCHIATRIST; RELIGION; ADULT; AGED; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; EUTHANASIA; FAMILY PLANNING; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; INDUCED ABORTION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORALITY; PREGNANCY; PSYCHIATRY; RANDOMIZATION; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; STATISTICS;

ABORTION, INDUCED; ADULT; AGED; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; DECISION MAKING; EUTHANASIA; FAMILY PLANNING SERVICES; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORALS; PHYSICIANS, FAMILY; PREGNANCY; PSYCHIATRY; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RELIGION AND MEDICINE; SOCIAL VALUES;

EID: 0041967080     PISSN: 00384348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.SMJ.0000054607.44960.49     Document Type: Article

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