The psychosocial effect of thoughts of personal mortality on cardiac risk assessment

Medical Decision Making

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 175-181

  Arndt, Jamie ^a   Vess, Matthew ^a   Cox, Cathy R ^a   Goldenberg, Jamie L ^b   Lagle, Stephen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cardiac risk assessments.; Medical bias; Mortality salience; Terror management; Triage decisions

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; FEMALE; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICAL STUDENT; MORTALITY; ONLINE SYSTEM; PATIENT INFORMATION; QUESTIONNAIRE; RATING SCALE; RELIGION; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; THINKING; THORAX PAIN;

ATTITUDE TO DEATH; CHRISTIANITY; CORONARY DISEASE; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMANS; ISLAM; MALE; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; PREJUDICE; RELIGION; RISK ASSESSMENT; STUDENTS, MEDICAL;

EID: 64549089701     PISSN: 0272989X     EISSN: 1552681X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0272989X08323300     Document Type: Article

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