Commentary: Quality improvement and psychiatric fitness-for-duty evaluations of physicians

Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 92-94

  Wettstein, Robert M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIPOLAR DISORDER; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COMORBIDITY; DRUG ABUSE; DRUG DEPENDENCE; ENDOCRINE DISEASE; EVALUATION; FAMILY; FUNCTIONAL DISEASE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; LAW SUIT; LICENCE; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MENTAL HEALTH; NOTE; PATIENT REFERRAL; PERSONALITY DISORDER; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PROGNOSIS; PUBLICATION; QUALITY CONTROL; RECURRENCE RISK; RELAPSE; SELF REPORT; SUBSTANCE ABUSE; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; VALIDATION PROCESS; WORK CAPACITY; WORK DISABILITY;

DISABILITY EVALUATION; EXPERT TESTIMONY; HUMANS; MENTAL COMPETENCY; MENTAL DISORDERS; PHYSICIANS; PSYCHIATRY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 15244341416     PISSN: 10936793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Note

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