The cochrane collaboration - Advances and challenges in improving evidence-based decision making

Medical Decision Making

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 2-9

  Jadad, Alejandro R ^a   Haynes, R Brian ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Communications; Decision making; Education; Evidence based medicine; Informatics; Internet; Meta analysis; Research transfer; Systematic reviews

Indexed keywords

CONFERENCE PAPER; DECISION MAKING; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; HEALTH CARE; INFORMATION SCIENCE; INTERNET; META ANALYSIS; ORGANIZATION; PEER REVIEW; RESEARCH;

COMPUTER COMMUNICATION NETWORKS; DECISION MAKING; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; HUMANS; INFORMATION SERVICES; INTERNATIONAL AGENCIES; PROGRAM EVALUATION; TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER;

EID: 0031982871     PISSN: 0272989X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0272989X9801800102     Document Type: Conference Paper

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