General Internal Medicine

Researchers at University of California target general internal medicine

Published in Physician Law Weekly, April 2nd, 2008

According to recent research from the United States, "There are few data available about factors which influence physicians' decisions to discharge patients from their practices. To study general internists' and family medicine physicians' attitudes and experiences in discharging patients from their practices."

"A cross-sectional mailed survey was used. One thousand general internists and family medicine physicians participated in this study. We studied the likelihood physicians would discharge 12 hypothetical patients from their practices, and whether they had actually discharged such patients. The effect of demographic data on the number of scenarios in which patients...

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Source: Physician Law Weekly (2008-04-02)

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