Healthcare and lifestyle practices of healthcare workers: Do healthcare workers practice what they preach?

JAMA Internal Medicine

Volumn 173, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 242-244

  Helfand, Benjamin K I ^a   Mukamal, Kenneth J ^a  

^a BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAR DRIVING; COLONOSCOPY; DENTAL HEALTH; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; LIFE SATISFACTION; LIFESTYLE; MAMMOGRAPHY; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL PRACTICE; NOTE; OBESITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PAPANICOLAOU TEST; PATIENT CARE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGMOIDOSCOPY; SMOKING; SUNBURN;

FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HUMANS; LIFE STYLE; MALE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84874100889     PISSN: 21686106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/2013.jamainternmed.1039     Document Type: Note

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