Evidence-based medicine and anaesthesia: Uneasy bedfellows

Anaesthesia and Intensive Care

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 679-685

  Horan, B F ^a  

^a ST VINCENT S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

Anaesthesia: evidence based, outcome

Indexed keywords

ANESTHESIA; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; METHODOLOGY; REVIEW; SKILL;

EID: 0031463562     PISSN: 0310057X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0310057x9702500616     Document Type: Review

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