Do doctors need statistics? Doctors' use of and attitudes to probability and statistics

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 28, Issue 15, 2009, Pages 1969-1981

  Swift, Louise ^a   Miles, Susan ^a,b   Price, Gill M ^a,b   Shepstone, Lee ^a,b   Leinster, Sam J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^b Department of Medical Education ^*

Author keywords

Doctors role; Probability; Statistics medicine; Undergraduate education

Indexed keywords

ADVERTIZING; ARTICLE; DATA ANALYSIS; HUMAN; MARKETING; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL PRACTICE; MEDICAL STUDENT; PATIENT CARE; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PROBABILITY; PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SCREENING TEST; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STATISTICS;

ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; EDUCATION, MEDICAL, UNDERGRADUATE; PHYSICIANS; QUESTIONNAIRES; STATISTICS AS TOPIC;

EID: 69949085917     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.3608     Document Type: Article

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