On defensive decision making: How doctors make decisions for their patients

Health Expectations

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 664-669

  Garcia Retamero, Rocio ^a,b   Galesic, Mirta ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Conservative decision making; Defensive medicine; Medical decision making

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CLINICAL PRACTICE; DECISION MAKING; DEFENSIVE MEDICINE; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSICIAN; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOLOGY; QUESTIONNAIRE; SPAIN; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; VERY ELDERLY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DECISION MAKING; DEFENSIVE MEDICINE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; PHYSICIANS; QUESTIONNAIRES; SPAIN;

EID: 84925966331     PISSN: 13696513     EISSN: 13697625     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1369-7625.2012.00791.x     Document Type: Article

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