Factors associated with health care professionals' choice of written asthma management plans

Military Medicine

Volumn 172, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 1058-1064

  Norwood, Ricky ^a   Meyer, John F ^a  

^a UNIFORMED SERVICES UNIVERSITY OF THE HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; CHI SQUARE TEST; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CONTENT ANALYSIS; DATA ANALYSIS; DESCRIPTIVE RESEARCH; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL STUDENT; NORMAL HUMAN; NURSING STUDENT; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE; QUESTIONNAIRE; READING; TREATMENT PLANNING;

EID: 35348813778     PISSN: 00264075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7205/milmed.172.10.1058     Document Type: Article

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