Physicians' responses to resource constraints

Archives of Internal Medicine

Volumn 165, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 639-644

  Hurst, Samia A ^a,c   Hull, Sara Chandros ^a   DuVal, Gordon ^a,b   Danis, Marion ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^b at the University of Toronto Wagner is also a faculty member of the Canadian Medical Associations' Physician Management Institute   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; CLINICAL PRACTICE; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MALE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL ETHICS; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; AGED; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; ETHICS, MEDICAL; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE RATIONING; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSICIANS; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; UNITED STATES;

EID: 15344347905     PISSN: 00039926     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archinte.165.6.639     Document Type: Review

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