Users’ Guides to the Medical Literature: IX. A Method for Grading Health Care Recommendations

JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association

Volumn 274, Issue 22, 1995, Pages 1800-1804

  Guyatt, Gordon H ^a   Sackett, David L ^a   Sinclair, John C ^a   Hayward, Robert ^a   Cook, Deborah J ^a   Cook, Richard J ^a   Bass, Eric ^a   Gerstein, Hertzel ^a   Haynes, Brian ^a   Holbrook, Anne ^a   Jaeschke, Roman ^a   Laupacls, Andreas ^a   Moyer, Virginia ^a   Wilson, Mark ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEALTH CARE; HEALTH SERVICE; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

EID: 0028842519     PISSN: 00987484     EISSN: 15383598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jama.1995.03530220066035     Document Type: Article

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