Perspectives of evidence-based surgery

Digestive Surgery

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 263-269

  Wente, Moritz N ^a   Seiler, Christoph M ^a   Uhl, Waldemar ^a   Büchler, Markus W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Evidence based medicine; Randomized controlled trials; Surgical research

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; ECONOMIC ASPECT; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; EXPERIMENT; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDICAL PRACTICE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; METHODOLOGY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REVIEW; SURGEON; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; VALIDATION PROCESS;

EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; HUMANS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, OPERATIVE;

EID: 0038350309     PISSN: 02534886     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000071183     Document Type: Review

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