Towards evidence-based medicine perversion?;¿Hacia la perversión de la medicina basada en la evidencia?

Medicina Clinica

Volumn 126, Issue 13, 2006, Pages 497-499

  Permanyer Miralda, Gaietà ^a   Ferreira González, Ignacio ^a  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARI VALL D HEBRON   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CULTURAL FACTOR; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; HEART FAILURE; HUMAN; MEDICAL PRACTICE; PATIENT IDENTIFICATION; PRESCRIPTION; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; ETHICS; EXPERT WITNESS; MEDICAL ETHICS; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; STANDARD; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ETHICS, MEDICAL; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; EXPERT TESTIMONY; GUIDELINES; HUMANS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33646515333     PISSN: 00257753     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1157/13086852     Document Type: Article

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