Levels of evidence and strenght of clinical recommendations from randomized controlled trials to practice guidelines;Livelli di evidenza scientifica e forza delle raccomandazioni cliniche. Dai trials alle linee-guida

Recenti Progressi in Medicina

Volumn 88, Issue 7-8, 1997, Pages 342-347

  Cartabellotta, Antonino ^a,b   Montalto, Giuseppe ^a   Notarbartolo, Alberto ^a   Campagna, Pietro ^a   Anastasi, Giovanni ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PALERMO   (Italy)

^b c/o GIMBE ^*  (Italy)

Author keywords

Evidence based medicine; Health care; Medical literature; Practice guidelines; Randomized controlled trials; Systematic reviews

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; HUMAN; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REVIEW; RISK; RISK FACTOR;

EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; HUMANS; ODDS RATIO; PRACTICE GUIDELINES; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 0031183945     PISSN: 00341193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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