Why medicine still needs a scientific foundation: Restating the hypotheticodeductive model - Part one

British Journal of General Practice

Volumn 54, Issue 502, 2004, Pages 400-401

  Hopayian, Kevork ^a  

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Indexed keywords

MEASLES MUMPS RUBELLA VACCINE;

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ARTICLE; AUTISM; BIOCHEMISTRY; BREAST CANCER; CANCER SCREENING; CHAOTIC DYNAMICS; CLINICAL MEDICINE; DIABETES MELLITUS; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; HYPOTHESIS; LINEAR SYSTEM; METHODOLOGY; NEUROLOGY; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; PAIN; PHENOMENOLOGY; PROSTATE CANCER; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGY; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOCIAL ASPECT; THEORETICAL MODEL; THEORY; VACCINATION; EXPERIMENTATION; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HEALTH CARE POLICY; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PREDICTION; SOCIOLOGY;

BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; KNOWLEDGE; MEDICINE; PHILOSOPHY; SCIENCE; SOCIAL SCIENCES;

EID: 2342653482     PISSN: 09601643     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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