The responses of medical general practitioners to unreasonable patient demand for antibiotics - A study of medical ethics using immersive virtual reality

PLoS ONE

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2016, Pages

  Pan, Xueni ^a,b   Slater, Mel ^c,d,e   Beacco, Alejandro ^c   Navarro, Xavi ^c   Rivas, Anna I Bellido ^c   Swapp, David ^e   Hale, Joanna ^a   Forbes, Paul Alexander George ^a   Denvir, Catrina ^e   Hamilton, Antonia F De C ^a   Delacroix, Sylvie ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^d INSTITUCIÓ CATALANA DE RECERCA I ESTUDIS AVANÇATS ICREA   (Spain)

^e UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; CONSULTATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; GESTURE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL ETHICS; NORMAL HUMAN; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; PRESCRIPTION; VIRTUAL REALITY; CLINICAL PRACTICE; EDUCATION; ETHICS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT REFERRAL; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOLOGY; QUESTIONNAIRE; SIMULATION TRAINING; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; VIRTUAL REALITY EXPOSURE THERAPY;

ADULT; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BAYES THEOREM; ETHICS, MEDICAL; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTITIONERS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; PRACTICE PATTERNS, PHYSICIANS'; REFERRAL AND CONSULTATION; SIMULATION TRAINING; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES; VIRTUAL REALITY EXPOSURE THERAPY;

EID: 84960510720     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0146837     Document Type: Article

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