No exit: An evaluation of measures of physician attrition

Health Services Research

Volumn 39, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 1571-1588

  Rittenhouse, Diane R ^a   Mertz, Elizabeth ^b   Keane, Dennis ^b   Grumbach, Kevin ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Career choice; Job satisfaction; Medical manpower; Physicians supply and distribution; Retirement; Specialties

Indexed keywords

CAREER; CLINICAL PRACTICE; DECISION MAKING; JOB ANALYSIS; JOB SATISFACTION; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PHYSICIAN; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; PREDICTION; QUESTIONNAIRE; RETIREMENT; REVIEW; SELF REPORT; SENESCENCE; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; AGED; CAREER CHOICE; DATA COLLECTION; DATABASES, FACTUAL; FEMALE; HEALTH MANPOWER; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HUMANS; JOB SATISFACTION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERSONNEL TURNOVER; PHYSICIANS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETIREMENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPECIALTIES, MEDICAL; UNITED STATES;

EID: 4844224897     PISSN: 00179124     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-6773.2004.00304.x     Document Type: Review

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