Who needs evidence-based health care?

Bulletin of the Medical Library Association

Volumn 86, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 40-45

  Tsafrir, Jenni ^a,b   Grinberg, Miriam ^b  

^a SHEBA MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; HEALTH SERVICE; INFORMATION SYSTEM; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; PATIENT CARE; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 0031959138     PISSN: 00257338     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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