Overview of study design in clinical epidemiology

Sexually Transmitted Infections

Volumn 76, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 244-247

  Stephenson, J M ^a   Babiker, A ^a  

^a ROYAL FREE AND UNIVERSITY COLLEGE MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ARTICLE; CLINICAL RESEARCH; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INFECTION RATE; METHODOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZATION; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE;

CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CAUSALITY; COHORT STUDIES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; HUMANS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS; RESEARCH DESIGN;

EID: 0033811681     PISSN: 13684973     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/sti.76.4.244     Document Type: Article

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