Insufficient quality of research on prehospital medical emergency care - Where are the major problems and solutions?

Swiss Medical Weekly

Volumn 134, Issue 27-28, 2004, Pages 389-394

  Osterwalder, Joseph J ^a  

^a CANTONAL HOSPITAL ST GALLEN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Cohort studies; Emergency care; Randomized controlled trials; Research

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL RESEARCH; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; HEALTH CARE NEED; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HUMAN; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL;

EID: 4043093413     PISSN: 14247860     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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