Clinical investigation in the 20th century: The ascendancy of numerical reasoning

Lancet

Volumn 352, Issue SUPPL.2, 1998, Pages

  Vandenbroucke, Jan P ^{a,b,c,d,e,f,g}  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c Netherlands Heart Foundation   (Netherlands)

^d ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^e LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^f ROYAL NETHERLANDS ACADEMY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES   (Netherlands)

^g LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL ARTICLE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MEDICINE; PHILOSOPHY OF MEDICINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT SURVEY; STATISTICS;

EID: 0032480540     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0140-6736(98)90293-8     Document Type: Article

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