Can Induced Anxiety from a Negative Earlier Experience Influence Vascular Surgeons' Statistical Decision-Making? A Randomized Field Experiment with an Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Analog

Journal of the American College of Surgeons

Volumn 203, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 642-652

  Dale, William ^a   Hemmerich, Joshua ^a   Ghini, Elizabeth A ^a   Schwarze, Margaret L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL AORTA ANEURYSM; ADULT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; DEMOGRAPHY; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZATION; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; VASCULAR SURGERY;

ADULT; ANGIOPLASTY, BALLOON; ANXIETY; AORTIC ANEURYSM, ABDOMINAL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSICIANS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; REWARD; RISK ASSESSMENT; SURGERY;

EID: 33750460655     PISSN: 10727515     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jamcollsurg.2006.07.020     Document Type: Article

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