The pros and cons of evidence-based surgery

Langenbeck's Archives of Surgery

Volumn 384, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 423-431

  Sauerland, Stefan ^a   Lefering, Rolf ^a   Neugebauer, Edmund A M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Clinical practice guidelines; Evidence based medicine; Health economics; Rationing; Surgical research

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH ECONOMICS; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL PRACTICE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REVIEW;

ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; HEALTH CARE RATIONING; HEALTH PRIORITIES; HUMANS; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; PRACTICE GUIDELINES; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS; RESEARCH; SURGERY;

EID: 0032740087     PISSN: 14352443     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004230050225     Document Type: Review

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