ICDs - Increasingly complex decisions

Archives of Internal Medicine

Volumn 172, Issue 14, 2012, Pages 1106-1107

  Goldberger, Zachary D ^a,b   Fagerlin, Angela ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; DEFIBRILLATOR; HUMAN; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; NOTE; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PATIENT DECISION MAKING; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK BENEFIT ANALYSIS; SUDDEN DEATH;

DEFIBRILLATORS, IMPLANTABLE; HUMANS; PATIENT PREFERENCE;

EID: 84864401974     PISSN: 00039926     EISSN: 15383679     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archinternmed.2012.2660     Document Type: Note

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