Doctors' health and fitness to practise: Treating addicted doctors

Occupational Medicine

Volumn 58, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 334-340

  Marshall, E Jane ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Addicted doctors; Addiction; Alcohol and drug dependence; Occupational health physicians; Policy implications; Prevention and detection; Risk factors for substance misuse; Treatment systems

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL REHABILITATION PROGRAM; ALCOHOLISM; ANXIETY; BEREAVEMENT; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CONTINUING EDUCATION; CONVALESCENCE; DEPRESSION; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; DRUG ABUSE; DRUG DEPENDENCE; DRUG DEPENDENCE TREATMENT; DRUG MISUSE; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; EARLY INTERVENTION; EDUCATION PROGRAM; FAMILY STRESS; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INDIVIDUALIZATION; JOB STRESS; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDICAL SCHOOL; NORTH AMERICA; OCCUPATIONAL ACCIDENT; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE; OCCUPATIONAL PHYSICIAN; PAIN; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT MONITORING; PERSONALITY DISORDER; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; PREDICTION; PRESCRIPTION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PSYCHIATRIST; REVIEW; SELF CARE; SUBSTANCE ABUSE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT PLANNING; WORK RESUMPTION;

ADULT; AGED; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL MEDICINE; PHYSICIAN IMPAIRMENT; RISK FACTORS; SUBSTANCE-RELATED DISORDERS;

EID: 49549101363     PISSN: 09627480     EISSN: 14718405     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/occmed/kqn081     Document Type: Review

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