Medical maximizing-minimizing preferences and health beliefs associated with emergency department patients' intentions to take a cardiac stress test after receiving information about testing

Purpose: The Medical Maximizer-Minimizer Scale (MMS) has been validated to predict preferences for health-care service use on hypothetical vignettes in nonclinical cohorts. Using mixed methods, we sought to determine whether it would predict preferences for cardiac stress testing in a cohort of emer...

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Main Authors: Andrew J Foy, Ashley Bucher, Lauren J Van Scoy, Laura D Scherer
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications 2022-01-01
Series:Heart and Mind
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Online Access:http://www.heartmindjournal.org/article.asp?issn=2468-6476;year=2022;volume=6;issue=4;spage=267;epage=275;aulast=Foy