Evidence and ethics in medicine

Perspectives in Biology and Medicine

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 418-431

  Worrall, John ^a  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; CLINICAL RESEARCH; CLINICAL TRIAL; EPISTEMOLOGY; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; EXTRACORPOREAL OXYGENATION; HUMAN; INFORMED CONSENT; MEDICAL ETHICS; PERSISTENT PULMONARY HYPERTENSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESEARCH ETHICS;

BIOETHICAL ISSUES; ETHICS, MEDICAL; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; EXTRACORPOREAL MEMBRANE OXYGENATION; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFORMED CONSENT; KNOWLEDGE; PERSISTENT FETAL CIRCULATION SYNDROME; PHILOSOPHY, MEDICAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; REFUSAL TO TREAT;

EID: 49749128052     PISSN: 00315982     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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