Translating animal research into clinical benefit

British Medical Journal

Volumn 334, Issue 7586, 2007, Pages 163-164

  Hackam, Daniel G ^a  

^a Cardiac Rehabilitation and Secondary Prevention Program   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIFIBRINOLYTIC AGENT; CORTICOSTEROID DERIVATIVE; TIRILAZAD;

BLEEDING; BLOOD CLOT LYSIS; BRAIN INJURY; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CLINICAL STUDY; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; EDITORIAL; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; GENETIC MANIPULATION; HUMAN; INTERVENTION STUDY; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MEDICAL RESEARCH; META ANALYSIS; METHODOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SCREENING TEST; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENTATION; ANIMALS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; HUMANS;

EID: 33846702343     PISSN: 09598146     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.39104.362951.80     Document Type: Editorial

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