Benchmarking the clinical prosthetic dental literature on MEDLINE

Journal of Prosthetic Dentistry

Volumn 88, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 533-541

  Nishimura, Kenichi ^a,b   Rasool, Faheem ^a,b   Ferguson, Michael B ^a,b   Sobel, Morton ^a,b   Niederman, Richard ^a,c  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF DENTAL MEDICINE   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c FORSYTH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DATA BASE; HUMAN; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDLINE; METHODOLOGY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; TOOTH PROSTHESIS; VALIDATION PROCESS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; DECISION MAKING; DIAGNOSIS; DOCUMENTATION; EPIDEMIOLOGY; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; INTERNET; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; PROGNOSIS; PUBLICATION; PUBLISHING; QUALITY CONTROL; STANDARD; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; THERAPY;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BENCHMARKING; CAUSALITY; CLINICAL TRIALS; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; DECISION MAKING; DIAGNOSIS; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; HUMANS; INTERNET; LINEAR MODELS; MEDICAL INFORMATICS APPLICATIONS; MEDLINE; PERIODICALS; PROGNOSIS; PROSTHODONTICS; PUBLISHING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICS; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; SUBJECT HEADINGS; THERAPEUTICS;

EID: 0036835718     PISSN: 00223913     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1067/mpr.2002.129301     Document Type: Article

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