Mapping the Cochrane evidence for decision making in health care

Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 689-692

  El Dib, Regina P ^a   Atallah, Álvaro N ^a,b   Andriolo, Regis B ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b Brazilian Cochrane Centre   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Clinical medicine; Clinical trials; Evidence based medicine; Meta analysis; Research; Review literature

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CLINICAL RESEARCH; COCHRANE LIBRARY; DATA ANALYSIS; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; HEALTH CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DATABASES, BIBLIOGRAPHIC; DECISION MAKING; DIFFUSION OF INNOVATION; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; HUMANS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS; REVIEW LITERATURE;

EID: 34547739004     PISSN: 13561294     EISSN: 13652753     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2753.2007.00886.x     Document Type: Article

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