Personal view: Victim blaming as management strategy for the gastroenterologist - A game theoretical approach

Alimentary Pharmacology and Therapeutics

Volumn 21, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 1179-1184

  Sonnenberg, A ^a,b  

^a OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PORTLAND VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIOR; CLINICAL PRACTICE; DISEASE ACTIVITY; DISEASE COURSE; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE; HUMAN; PERFORMANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; REVIEW;

ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; GAME THEORY; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASES; HUMANS; MEDICAL STAFF, HOSPITAL; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS;

EID: 19544376490     PISSN: 02692813     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2036.2005.02491.x     Document Type: Review

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