Are Australians willing to be treated by a physician assistant?

Australasian Medical Journal

Volumn 3, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 407-413

  Hooker, Roderick S ^a   Harrison, Kristen ^b   Pashen, Dennis ^c  

^a DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS   (United States)

^b National Rural Health Student' Network   (Australia)

^c JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Concept model; Ethics; Informed choice; Informed consent; Non physician clinicians; Queensland; Surrogate patient; Trade off

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; AUSTRALIAN; ETHNIC GROUP; ETHNICITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL PRACTICE; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PATIENT DECISION MAKING; PHYSICIAN ASSISTANT;

EID: 77955406089     PISSN: None     EISSN: 18361935     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4066/AMJ.2010.325     Document Type: Article

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