Evidence-based medicine and drug prescription: Reasons for discrepancy;Prescription therapeutique et donnees actuelles de la science: Facteurs des ecarts

Therapie

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 221-224

  Collet, J P ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

drug prescription; evidence based medicine

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG INFORMATION; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL LITERATURE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRESCRIPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREATMENT PLANNING; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; FACTUAL DATABASE; HUMAN; INFORMATION SYSTEM; PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE;

CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIALS; DATABASES, FACTUAL; DRUG INFORMATION SERVICES; HUMANS; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; PRESCRIPTIONS, DRUG; PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE;

EID: 0029931653     PISSN: 00405957     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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