Clinically useful measures of the effects of treatment

Evidence-Based Nursing

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 36-39

  Dicenso, Alba ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DECISION MAKING; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; META ANALYSIS; PATIENT SATISFACTION;

DECISION MAKING; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; META-ANALYSIS; PATIENT SATISFACTION;

EID: 0035319972     PISSN: 13676539     EISSN: 14689618     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/ebn.4.2.36     Document Type: Note

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