Users' Guides to the Medical Literature: II. How to Use an Article About Therapy or Prevention A. Are the Results of the Study Valid?

JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association

Volumn 270, Issue 21, 1993, Pages 2598-2601

  Guyatt, Gordon H ^a   Sackett, David L ^a   Cook, Deborah J ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY; CREATININE; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; PREDNISONE;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; HUMAN; KIDNEY BIOPSY; MEDICAL LITERATURE; NEPHRITIS; PLASMAPHERESIS; PREVENTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZATION; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS; THERAPY; MEDLINE; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY;

CLINICAL TRIALS; GRATEFUL MED; MEDLARS; PERIODICALS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RESEARCH DESIGN;

EID: 0027368467     PISSN: 00987484     EISSN: 15383598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jama.1993.03510210084032     Document Type: Article

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