Is there a downside to customizing care? Implications of general and patient-specific treatment strategies

Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1171-1176

  Veazie, Peter J ^a   Johnson, Paul E ^b   O'Connor, Patrick J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^c HEALTHPARTNERS RESEARCH FOUNDATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Chronic disease; Clinical guidelines; Clinical inertia; Diabetes mellitus; Patient safety; Treatment strategies

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CASE MANAGEMENT; CHRONIC DISEASE; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; CLINICAL PRACTICE; ERROR; GENETIC MARKER; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HUMAN; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT CODING; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

DECISION SUPPORT TECHNIQUES; DISEASE MANAGEMENT; HUMANS; INDIVIDUALIZED MEDICINE; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC;

EID: 73549085193     PISSN: 13561294     EISSN: 13652753     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2753.2009.01310.x     Document Type: Article

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