Evidence based surgery: Ethical and methodological aspects;La chirurgie factuelle: Aspects éthiques et méthodologiques

Revue Medicale de Bruxelles

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 451-458

  Kinnaert, P ^a,b  

^a ERASME HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

^b NONE   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Ethics; Evidence based surgery; Observational studies; Randomized controlled trials; Registries

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL RESEARCH; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; MEDICAL ETHICS; METHODOLOGY; REGISTER; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; ETHICS; HUMAN; PATIENT SELECTION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RESEARCH ETHICS; STANDARD; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICS; SURGERY;

PLACEBO;

DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; ETHICS, MEDICAL; ETHICS, RESEARCH; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; HUMANS; PATIENT SELECTION; PLACEBO EFFECT; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS; REGISTRIES; RESEARCH DESIGN; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, OPERATIVE;

EID: 33751239473     PISSN: 00353639     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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