Doctors' health and fitness to practise: Performance problems in doctors and cognitive impairments

Occupational Medicine

Volumn 58, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 328-333

  Pitkanen, Mervi ^a   Hurn, Juliet ^a   Kopelman, Michael D ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cognitive functions; Doctors; Frontal executive functions; Impaired performance; Memory; Neurocognitive; Neuropsychiatry; Neuropsychology

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; CHOLINESTERASE INHIBITOR;

ACCURACY; ADULT; ALCOHOL ABUSE; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COGNITIVE REHABILITATION; DEMENTIA; DEPRESSION; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; FRONTOTEMPORAL DEMENTIA; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; JOB PERFORMANCE; MALE; MEDICAL ERROR; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDLINE; MULTIINFARCT DEMENTIA; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NEUROPSYCHIATRY; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT SAFETY; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGIC ASSESSMENT; PSYCINFO; REVIEW; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRANSIENT GLOBAL AMNESIA; TREATMENT PLANNING;

CLINICAL COMPETENCE; COGNITION DISORDERS; EMPLOYEE PERFORMANCE APPRAISAL; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; MENTAL DISORDERS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PHYSICIAN IMPAIRMENT; PHYSICIANS;

EID: 49549125874     PISSN: 09627480     EISSN: 14718405     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/occmed/kqn080     Document Type: Review

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