Outcomes based medicine in veterinary surgery: Getting hard measures of subjective outcomes: Evidence-based surgical practice

Veterinary Surgery

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 289-292

  Brown, Dorothy Cimino ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; DECISION MAKING; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; QUESTIONNAIRE; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STANDARD; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VETERINARY MEDICINE;

ANIMALS; DECISION MAKING; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SURGERY, VETERINARY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 34249829620     PISSN: 01613499     EISSN: 1532950X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1532-950X.2007.00269.x     Document Type: Article

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