Agreement and meaning: Rethinking consensus analysis

Journal of Ethnopharmacology

Volumn 112, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 451-460

  Moerman, Daniel E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN DEARBORN   (United States)

Author keywords

Consensus analysis; Effectiveness; Meaning response; Medicinal plants; Placebo effect

Indexed keywords

HERBACEOUS AGENT; PLACEBO;

ACHILLEA; ACORUS CALAMUS; AGRIMONIA; ANEMONE; ANGIOSPERM; ARTEMISIA; ARTICLE; ASCLEPIAS; BEAN; CALCULATION; COMMON VETCH; CONSENSUS; CONSENSUS ANALYSIS; CULTURAL FACTOR; CYPERACEAE; DATA ANALYSIS; DATURA; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG USE; ETHNOBOTANY; GALIUM; GERANIUM; GEUM; GINSENG; HERACLEUM; HUMAN; LICHEN; LIVERWORT; MARCHANTIA; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MEDICINAL PLANT; MIRABILIS; NUPHAR; OPLOPANAX; OPUNTIA; PAPAVERACEAE; PLANTAGO; RUMEX; SPRUCE; TAXON; WILLOW;

CONSENSUS; ETHNOBOTANY; ETHNOPHARMACOLOGY; HUMANS; INDIANS, NORTH AMERICAN; OBSERVER VARIATION; PHYTOTHERAPY; PLANT COMPONENTS, AERIAL; PLANT PREPARATIONS; PLANT ROOTS; PLANTS, MEDICINAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 34250886683     PISSN: 03788741     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jep.2007.04.001     Document Type: Article

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