Prescribing under pressure: parent-physician conversations and antibiotics
Auteur :
Stivers, Tanya
Éditeur :
Oxford University Press Inc
ISBN :
9780195311150
Date de publication :
22 mars 2007
Dimensions :
16,0 x 23,4 x 3,1 cm
Poids :
519 g
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
USA
Why do American physicians continue to prescribe inappropriately given the high social stakes of this action? This book shows how parents put pressure on doctors in largely covert ways. It also shows how physicians yield to this pressure evidencing that small differences in wording have consequences for diagnosis and treatment recommendations.