Clinical inertia and uncertainty in medicine

JAMA

Volumn 306, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 383-

  Mohan, Arun V ^a   Phillips, Lawrence S ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN A1C;

CHRONIC DISEASE; CLINICAL INERTIA; CLINICAL PRACTICE; DIABETES MELLITUS; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; LETTER; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK REDUCTION; UNCERTAINTY; DECISION MAKING; HUMAN; NOTE; PATIENT CARE; STANDARD;

CHRONIC DISEASE; DECISION MAKING; HUMANS; PATIENT CARE; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC;

EID: 79960744691     PISSN: 00987484     EISSN: 15383598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jama.2011.1044     Document Type: Letter

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