Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature search strategies for identifying methodologically sound causation and prognosis studies

Applied Nursing Research

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 98-103

  Walker Dilks, Cindy ^a   Wilczynski, Nancy L ^a   Haynes, R Brian ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIBLIOGRAPHIC DATABASE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HUMAN; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; NURSING RESEARCH; PROGNOSIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

CAUSALITY; DATABASES, BIBLIOGRAPHIC; HUMANS; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; NURSING RESEARCH; PROGNOSIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 42949109849     PISSN: 08971897     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apnr.2006.04.004     Document Type: Article

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