Physician or clinical inertia: What is It? Is It really a Problem? and what can be done about it?

Journal of Clinical Hypertension

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 1-4

  Moser, Marvin ^a,b  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLOOD PRESSURE REGULATION; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; EDITORIAL; ELDERLY CARE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL PRACTICE; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PATIENT EDUCATION; PHYSICIAN; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREATMENT INDICATION;

DECISION MAKING; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC;

EID: 58149470811     PISSN: 15246175     EISSN: 17517176     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1751-7176.2008.00047.x     Document Type: Editorial

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