Evidence-based medicine: What it is and what it is not

Injury

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 302-306

  Bhandari, Mohit ^a   Giannoudis, Peter V ^b  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Evidence based medicine; Randomized control trials; Type I error; Type II error

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CASE STUDY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; DATA BASE; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MEDICAL LITERATURE; METHODOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRADITIONAL MEDICINE;

DATA COLLECTION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; HUMANS; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; META-ANALYSIS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS; REVIEW LITERATURE;

EID: 33644837212     PISSN: 00201383     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.injury.2006.01.034     Document Type: Article

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