How can medical training and informed consent be reconciled with volume-outcome data?

Journal of Clinical Ethics

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 149-157

  Wendler, David S ^a   Shah, Seema ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^b US District Court ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL COMPETENCE; COMPENSATION; ETHICS; HUMAN; IATROGENIC DISEASE; INFORMED CONSENT; MEDICAL EDUCATION; PHYSICIAN; REVIEW; STANDARD; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES;

CLINICAL COMPETENCE; COMPENSATION AND REDRESS; EDUCATION, MEDICAL, GRADUATE; HUMANS; IATROGENIC DISEASE; INFORMED CONSENT; PHYSICIANS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33747232428     PISSN: 10467890     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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