Pragmatic trials: Propaganda or research tool?

Focus on Alternative and Complementary Therapies

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 181-183

  Resch, Karl Ludwig ^a,b   Ernst, Edzard ^c  

^a DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b FBK Bad Elster ^*  (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUPUNCTURE; ACUTE RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE; ANALYTIC METHOD; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CLINICAL STUDY; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG USE; EAR DISEASE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HEADACHE; HUMAN; INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF DISEASES; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MEDICAL RESEARCH; METHODOLOGY; NOTE; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; QUALITY OF LIFE; STANDARDIZATION; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT PLANNING;

EID: 24944434769     PISSN: 14653753     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Note

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