Current thinking in the evidence-based health care debate

Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 95-109

  Miles, Andrew ^a   Grey, J E ^b   Polychronis, A ^c   Price, N ^d   Melchiorri, C ^e  

^a QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF WALES   (United Kingdom)

^c HAMMERSMITH HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^d DFPHM   (United Kingdom)

^e NONE

Author keywords

Accountability; Clinical audit; Clinical practice guidelines; Ethics; Evidence based medicine (EBM); Health policy; Performance measurement

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL PRACTICE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CLINICAL RESEARCH; EDITORIAL; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; JOB PERFORMANCE; MEDICAL AUDIT; MEDICAL ETHICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL;

BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; CLINICAL MEDICINE; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; GUIDELINE ADHERENCE; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HUMANS; KNOWLEDGE; PRACTICE GUIDELINES; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY;

EID: 0037561436     PISSN: 13561294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2753.2003.00438.x     Document Type: Editorial

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