Users' guide to the surgical literature: Case-control studies in surgical journals

Canadian Journal of Surgery

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 148-151

  Mihailovic, Alexandra ^a,b   Bell, Chaim M ^a,b   Urbach, David R ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY HEALTH NETWORK   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c TORONTO GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PUBLICATION; RESEARCH; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURGERY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HUMAN; NOMENCLATURE; RISK; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS;

CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; EPIDEMIOLOGIC RESEARCH DESIGN; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; ODDS RATIO; PERIODICALS; SURGERY; TERMINOLOGY;

EID: 19144366225     PISSN: 0008428X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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