Oh Lord! I've got those clinical research blues

Surgical Infections

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 327-342

  Barie, Philip S ^a,b  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^b WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ABDOMINAL INFECTION; BIOTECHNOLOGY; CLINICAL TRIAL; DISEASE COURSE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT; HEALTH INSURANCE; HUMAN; INFORMED CONSENT; LEGAL ASPECT; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL ETHICS; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MEDICAL SOCIETY; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; METHODOLOGY; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRODUCTIVITY; QUALITY CONTROL; REFUSAL TO PARTICIPATE; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; SAFETY; STANDARDIZATION; SURGICAL INFECTION;

BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; ECONOMICS, MEDICAL; ETHICS, MEDICAL; HUMANS; REFUSAL TO PARTICIPATE; RESEARCH SUPPORT; SOCIETIES, MEDICAL; SURGERY;

EID: 16244410818     PISSN: 10962964     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/sur.2004.5.327     Document Type: Review

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