Public response to cost-quality tradeoffs in clinical decisions

Medical Decision Making

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 369-378

  Beach, Mary Catherine ^a,b   Asch, David A ^c,d,e   Jepson, Christopher ^e   Hershey, John C ^d,f   Mohr, Tara ^g   McMorrow, Stacey ^h   Ubel, Peter A ^c,d,i,j  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^g Philadelphia Hlth Mgmt Corporation   (United States)

^h URBAN INSTITUTE   (United States)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^j Prog Impr Hlth Care Decis Making   (United States)

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Author keywords

Cost benefit analysis; Decision making; Health care rationing; Public opinion

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER RISK; CANCER SCREENING; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; SCREENING TEST; TREATMENT PLANNING;

EMPIRICAL APPROACH; HEALTH CARE AND PUBLIC HEALTH;

ADULT; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE RATIONING; HUMANS; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; PUBLIC OPINION; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK ASSESSMENT; UNITED STATES; VALUE OF LIFE;

EID: 0141566792     PISSN: 0272989X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0272989X03256882     Document Type: Article

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