Eponyms: Errors in clinical practice and scientific writing

Acta Orthopaedica Belgica

Volumn 71, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 1-8

  Waseem, Mohammad ^a   Khan, Munir ^a   Hussain, Nazakat ^a   Giannoudis, Peter Vasilios ^a,b   Fischer, Jochen ^a,c   Smith, Raymond Malcolm ^a,d  

^a MACCLESFIELD DISTRICT GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b ST JAMES S UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c Trauma and Orthopaedics   (United Kingdom)

^d MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL PRACTICE; ERROR; HAND SURGERY; MEDICAL LITERATURE; NOMENCLATURE; ORTHOPEDIC SURGERY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PUBLICATION; RESEARCH; REVIEW; WRITING;

DATA COLLECTION; DIAGNOSTIC TESTS, ROUTINE; EPONYMS; HUMANS; MEDICAL ERRORS; ORTHOPEDICS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; WRITING;

EID: 14844293537     PISSN: 00016462     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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