A decision making approach to assessing critical appraisal skills

Medical Teacher

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 76-80

  Schwartz, Alan ^a   Hupert, Jordan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL RESEARCH; METHODOLOGY; PREDICTION; SCORING SYSTEM; SKILL; VALIDATION PROCESS;

BAYES THEOREM; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; DECISION MAKING; EDUCATION, MEDICAL; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; HUMANS;

EID: 17144407549     PISSN: 0142159X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01421590400016415     Document Type: Article

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