Are today's junior doctors confident in managing patients with minor injury?

Emergency Medicine Journal

Volumn 23, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 867-868

  Croft, Susan J ^a   Kuhrt, A ^b   Mason, S ^a  

^a NORTHERN GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b BARNSLEY HOSPITAL NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CLINICAL EDUCATION; CLINICAL PRACTICE; EMERGENCY CARE; EMERGENCY WARD; EXPERIENCE; GENERAL HOSPITAL; HUMAN; INJURY; NURSE PRACTITIONER; PATIENT CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; SELF ESTEEM; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SURGICAL PATIENT; TEACHING; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE; WORK CAPACITY;

CLINICAL COMPETENCE; EMERGENCIES; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; ENGLAND; HOSPITAL UNITS; HOSPITAL-PHYSICIAN RELATIONS; HUMANS; JOB SATISFACTION; MEDICAL STAFF, HOSPITAL; SELF CONCEPT;

EID: 33750730637     PISSN: 14720205     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/emj.2006.035246     Document Type: Article

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