Fingers, hands or patients? The concept of independent observations

Journal of Hand Surgery

Volumn 28 B, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 102-105

  Sauerland, Stefan ^a,b   Lefering, R ^a,b   Bayer Sandow, T ^a,b   Bruser P ^a,b   Neugebauer, E A M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^b Malteser Hospital   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL OBSERVATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DATA ANALYSIS; DATA BASE; FINGER; HAND; HAND FUNCTION; HAND SURGERY; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MEASUREMENT; METHODOLOGY; OBSERVER VARIATION; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PATIENT INFORMATION; REVIEW; SAMPLE SIZE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL PATIENT;

EID: 0037383726     PISSN: 02667681     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0266-7681(02)00360-1     Document Type: Review

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