The median is not the (only) message

Annals of Internal Medicine

Volumn 145, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 700-701

  Casarett, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BREAST CANCER; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER SCREENING; CANCER SURVIVAL; COLON CANCER; COLORECTAL CANCER; COMORBIDITY; DECISION MAKING; DISABILITY; EDITORIAL; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HUMAN; LIFE EXPECTANCY; LUNG CANCER; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; MAMMOGRAPHY; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDICAL PRACTICE; MESOTHELIOMA; PHYSICIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; NOTE; PROGNOSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

COMMUNICATION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; LIFE EXPECTANCY; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; PROGNOSIS;

EID: 33750949418     PISSN: 00034819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7326/0003-4819-145-9-200611070-00014     Document Type: Editorial

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