Evidence-based medicine and the anecdote: Uneasy bedfellows or ideal couple?

Paediatrics and Child Health

Volumn 11, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 665-668

  Kosko, Jilleen ^a   Klassen, Terry P ^b   Bishop, Ted ^b   Hartling, Lisa ^b,c  

^a Word Monger Communications   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^c Aberhart Centre   (Canada)

Author keywords

Anecdotes; Communication; Evidence based medicine; Narration; Storytelling

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD HEALTH CARE; CHILD PARENT RELATION; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; EMERGENCY WARD; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; LITERATURE; MEDICAL PRACTICE; NARRATIVE; STORYTELLING;

EID: 33846437075     PISSN: 12057088     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/pch/11.10.665     Document Type: Article

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