Control Groups Appropriate for Surgical Interventions: Ethical and Practical Issues

Gastroenterology

Volumn 126, Issue 1, 2004, Pages

  Brown, Morton B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PLACEBO; VIRUS VACCINE;

ARTHROSCOPY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROL GROUP; CULDOSCOPE; DATA ANALYSIS; ETHICS; EXPERIENCE; HUMAN; HYSTERECTOMY; MASKING; MORBIDITY; OSTEOARTHRITIS; PATIENT SELECTION; PELVIS FLOOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SKILL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTION; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SURGEON; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TISSUE INJURY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT PLANNING; URINE INCONTINENCE; VAGINA RECONSTRUCTION;

EID: 0347992827     PISSN: 00165085     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/j.gastro.2003.10.041     Document Type: Conference Paper

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