Retrospective analysis: Looking backward to point the way forward

Anesthesiology

Volumn 105, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 643-644

  Ochroch, E Andrew ^a   Fleisher, Lee A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANESTHESIOLOGY; BREAST CANCER; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SURVIVAL; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; EDITORIAL; GERIATRIC ANESTHESIA; GERIATRIC CARE; IMMUNE RESPONSE; MASTECTOMY; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MEDICAL RESEARCH; METASTASIS; NERVE BLOCK; PERIOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLICATION; QUALITY CONTROL; RANDOMIZATION; RESEARCH ETHICS; RESEARCH SUBJECT; SPINAL ANESTHESIA;

ANESTHESIOLOGY; COHORT STUDIES; HUMANS; MEDICAL RECORDS SYSTEMS, COMPUTERIZED; OBSERVER VARIATION; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RESEARCH DESIGN; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 33749180478     PISSN: 00033022     EISSN: 15281175     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000542-200610000-00003     Document Type: Editorial

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