Patient ethics and evidence-based medicine - The good healthcare citizen

Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 141-146

  Brody, Howard ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; AZITHROMYCIN; LEVOFLOXACIN;

CLINICAL PRACTICE; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; MEDICAL ETHICS; MEDICAL PROFESSION; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PATIENT CARE; PRESCRIPTION; REVIEW; TRAINING; UPPER RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION;

HEALTH CARE AND PUBLIC HEALTH; PROFESSIONAL PATIENT RELATIONSHIP;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; DECISION MAKING; ETHICS, CLINICAL; ETHICS, MEDICAL; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; HUMANS; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; PRESCRIPTIONS, DRUG; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS; SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY;

EID: 17144409455     PISSN: 09631801     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0963180105050176     Document Type: Review

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