A nurse-statistician reanalyzes data from the Rosa Therapeutic Touch Study

Alternative Therapies in Health and Medicine

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 58-64

  Cox, Thomas ^a  

^a VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL RESEARCH; HUMAN; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDICAL SOCIETY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; VALIDATION PROCESS;

CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; NURSING EVALUATION RESEARCH; RESEARCH DESIGN; THERAPEUTIC TOUCH; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0037239271     PISSN: 10786791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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