Same evidence, different meanings: Transformation of textual evidence in hospital new drugs committees

Text and Talk

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 169-189

  Jenkings, K Neil ^a   Barber, Nick ^b  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Documents; Drug and therapeutic committees; Drug decision making; Ethnomethodology; Evidence based medicine; Texts

Indexed keywords

EID: 34247386347     PISSN: 18607330     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/TEXT.2006.008     Document Type: Review

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