Evidence-based medical decision making: Deductive versus inductive logical thinking

Academic Emergency Medicine

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 670-671

  Kyriacou, Demetrios N ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL PRACTICE; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; HISTORY OF MEDICINE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL INFORMATION; NOTE; PATIENT CARE; PHYSICIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLICATION;

EID: 2942627980     PISSN: 10696563     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1197/j.aem.2004.02.512     Document Type: Editorial

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