Australian doctors' involvement in medicolegal matters: A cross-sectional self-report study

Medical Journal of Australia

Volumn 191, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 436-440

  Nash, Louise M ^a,b,c   Kelly, Patrick J ^d   Daly, Michele G ^b   Walter, Garry ^b,e,f   Van Ekert, Elizabeth H ^g   Walton, Merrilyn ^b   Willcock, Simon M ^b   Tennant, Christopher C ^b  

^a The New South Wales Institute of Psychiatry   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^c Department of Population Health   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^e Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services Australia   (Australia)

^f DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^g MDA National   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ALCOHOL USE DISORDERS IDENTIFICATION TEST; ARTICLE; FEMALE; GENERAL HEALTH QUESTIONNAIRE; HEALTH CARE; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICOLEGAL ASPECT; MENTAL DISEASE; NORMAL HUMAN; PHYSICIAN; SELF REPORT; AUSTRALIA; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LEGAL LIABILITY; MALPRACTICE; MIDDLE AGED; SEX RATIO; STATISTICS;

ADULT; AUSTRALIA; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DATA COLLECTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIABILITY, LEGAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSICIAN IMPAIRMENT; PHYSICIANS; SEX DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 73349103797     PISSN: 0025729X     EISSN: 13265377     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5694/j.1326-5377.2009.tb02879.x     Document Type: Article

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