Measures of association: An overview with examples from Canadian emergency medicine research

Canadian Journal of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 219-223

  Worster, Andrew ^a,c   Rowe, Brian H ^b  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^c HAMILTON HEALTH SCIENCES   (Canada)

Author keywords

Decision making; Emergency medicine; Evidence based medicine; Therapeutics

Indexed keywords

EID: 28044472342     PISSN: 14818035     EISSN: 14818035     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1481803500005595     Document Type: Review

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