Personal paper. Ethics and evidence based medicine

British Medical Journal

Volumn 316, Issue 7138, 1998, Pages 1151-1153

  Kerridge, Ian ^a,c   Lowe, Michael ^a   Henry, David ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

^c JOHN HUNTER HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL TRIAL; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL ETHICS; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SHORT SURVEY; AUSTRALIA; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; DECISION MAKING; EMPIRICAL RESEARCH; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HEALTH CARE AND PUBLIC HEALTH; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REVIEW; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; STANDARD;

HEALTH CARE AND PUBLIC HEALTH;

AUSTRALIA; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); CLINICAL TRIALS; DATA COLLECTION; DECISION MAKING; EMPIRICAL RESEARCH; ETHICS, MEDICAL; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; HEALTH CARE RATIONING; HUMANS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SOCIAL VALUES;

EID: 0032507379     PISSN: 09598146     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.316.7138.1151     Document Type: Short Survey

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