Evidence-based Reviews and Databases: Are They Worth the Effort? Developing Evidence Summaries for Emergency Medicine

Academic Emergency Medicine

Volumn 14, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 960-964

  Wyer, Peter C ^a   Rowe, Brian H ^a  

^a University of Alberta ^*  (Canada)

Author keywords

electronic resources; evidence based medicine; knowledge translation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DATA BASE; EMERGENCY CARE; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDICAL PRACTICE; PHYSICIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

CLINICAL COMPETENCE; DATABASES, FACTUAL; DECISION MAKING; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; HUMANS; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; REVIEW LITERATURE AS TOPIC;

EID: 35349015121     PISSN: 10696563     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1197/j.aem.2007.06.011     Document Type: Article

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