Clinical judgement & evidence-based medicine: Time for reconciliation

Indian Journal of Medical Research

Volumn 132, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 623-626

  Karthikeyan, Ganesan ^a   Pais, Prem ^b  

^a ALL INDIA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

^b ST JOHN'S NATIONAL ACADEMY OF HEALTH SCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

Biases; Clinical judgement; Evidence based medicine; Heuristics

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL PRACTICE; COGNITION; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; HUMAN; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; PATIENT CARE; PHYSICIAN; REVIEW; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CLINICAL MEDICINE; DECISION MAKING; DISEASE MANAGEMENT; METHODOLOGY;

CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CLINICAL MEDICINE; DISEASE MANAGEMENT; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; JUDGMENT;

EID: 78649470831     PISSN: 09715916     EISSN: 09715916     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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