Deutsche medizinische Wochenschrift
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Dtsch. Med. Wochenschr. · Feb 2011
[Medical decision making in symptoms of type 2 diabetes mellitus in general practice].
Patient and physician attributes influence medical decisions as non-medical factors. The current study examines the influence of patient age and gender and physicians' gender and years of clinical experience on medical decision making in patients with undiagnosed diabetes type 2. ⋯ Medical decision making in patients with diabetes type 2 is only marginally influenced by patients' and physicians' characteristics under study.