Creating experimental analogs with available clinical information: Credible alternatives to “gold-standard” experiments?

Social Work in Health Care

Volumn 33, Issue 3-4, 2002, Pages 163-183

  Sainz, Anthony ^a   Epstein, Irwin ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Data mining; Information for practice; Practice based research

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MEDICAL RESEARCH; SOCIAL WORK;

DATA COLLECTION; EVALUATION STUDIES; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HUMANS; INSTITUTIONAL PRACTICE; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; PATIENT SELECTION; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RENAL DIALYSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SOCIAL WORK DEPARTMENT, HOSPITAL; SOCIAL WORK, PSYCHIATRIC; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0035703868     PISSN: 00981389     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J010v33n03_11     Document Type: Article

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