Discounting a surgical risk: Data, understanding, and GIST

Virtual Mentor

Volumn 14, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 532-538

  Schwartz, Peter H ^a  

^a NONE

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; DECISION MAKING; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RISK ASSESSMENT; THYROID NODULE; THYROIDECTOMY;

DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMANS; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; RISK ASSESSMENT; THYROID NODULE; THYROIDECTOMY;

EID: 84866595491     PISSN: 19377010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/virtualmentor.2012.14.7.ecas1-1207     Document Type: Article

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