Bed rest: A potentially harmful treatment needing more careful evaluation

Lancet

Volumn 354, Issue 9186, 1999, Pages 1229-1233

  Allen, Chris ^a   Glasziou, Paul ^a   Del Mar, Chris ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE HEPATITIS; ARTICLE; BED REST; CLINICAL TRIAL; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; LABOR; LOW BACK PAIN; LUMBAR PUNCTURE; MATERNAL HYPERTENSION; MOBILIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADICULOGRAPHY; SPINAL ANESTHESIA; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0033539296     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(98)10063-6     Document Type: Article

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