On assessing the quality of physicians' clinical judgment: The search for outcome variables

Evaluation and the Health Professions

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 369-382

  Wainer, Howard ^a,b   Mee, Janet ^a  

^a National Board of Medical Examiners   (United States)

^b NATIONAL BOARD OF MEDICAL EXAMINERS   (United States)

Author keywords

Clinical judgment analysis; Cost function; Regression analysis; Urinary tract infection

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL ERROR; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMAN; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; PHYSICIAN; QUALITY CONTROL; REVIEW; URINARY TRACT INFECTION;

CLINICAL COMPETENCE; COSTS AND COST ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; JUDGMENT; PHYSICIANS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS;

EID: 8144229346     PISSN: 01632787     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0163278704270009     Document Type: Review

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