How doctors feel: affective issues in patients' safety

The Lancet

Volumn 372, Issue 9645, 2008, Pages 1205-1206

  Croskerry, Pat ^a   Abbass, Allan A ^a   Wu, Albert W ^b  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFFECT; ARTICLE; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; CAREGIVER; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COGNITION; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; HUMAN; IRRITABILITY; MOOD DISORDER; NEGLECT; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT SAFETY; PHYSICIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SLEEP DEPRIVATION; TRANSFERENCE;

EID: 53049103156     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(08)61500-7     Document Type: Note

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