KIGS and KIMS as tools for evidence-based medicine

Hormone Research

Volumn 51, Issue SUPPL. 1, 1999, Pages 83-86

  Ranke, Michael B ^a   Dowie, Jack ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Clinical database; Clinical decision making; Growth hormone; Growth hormone deficiency; KIGS; KIMS

Indexed keywords

GROWTH HORMONE;

ADULT; CHILD; CONFERENCE PAPER; DATA BASE; DRUG SURVEILLANCE PROGRAM; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; GROWTH HORMONE DEFICIENCY; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL;

CLINICAL TRIALS; DATABASES, FACTUAL; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; GROWTH DISORDERS; HUMAN GROWTH HORMONE; HUMANS; QUALITY ASSURANCE, HEALTH CARE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0033000595     PISSN: 03010163     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000053140     Document Type: Conference Paper

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2. Ranke MB, Lindberg A, Chatelain P, Wilton P, Cutfield W, Albertsson-Wikland K, Price DA on behalf of the KIGS International Board: Derivation and validation of a mathematical model for predicting the response to exogenous recombinant human growth hormone (GH) in prepubertal children with idiopathic GH deficiency. JCEM 1999;84:1174-1183.
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4. Ranke MB, Lindberg A, Chatelain P, Cutfield WS, Albertsson-Wikland K, Wilton P, Price DA: Turner syndrome: Demographic auxology and growth during growth hormone therapy in KIGS; in Ranke MB, Wilton P (eds): Growth Hormone Therapy in KIGS - 10 Years' Experience. Mannheim, J & J Verlag, 1999.