How consumers and policymakers can use systematic reviews for decision making

Annals of Internal Medicine

Volumn 127, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 37-42

  Bero, Lisa A ^a   Jadad, Alejandro R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONSUMER; DECISION MAKING; HEALTH CARE INDUSTRY; HEALTH CARE POLICY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

EID: 0030737734     PISSN: 00034819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7326/0003-4819-127-1-199707010-00007     Document Type: Review

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