Guidelines for developing and testing clinical decision rules

Western Journal of Nursing Research

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 244-253

  Shapiro, Susan E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Binary logistic regression; Clinical decision rules; Delphi technique; Recursive partitioning analysis

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; DELPHI STUDY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; UNITED STATES;

DELPHI TECHNIQUE; GUIDELINES; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33644974466     PISSN: 01939459     EISSN: 15528456     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0193945905283722     Document Type: Article

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