Evidence-based ethics - What it should be and what it shouldn't

BMC Medical Ethics

Volumn 9, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Strech, Daniel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENEFICENCE; BIOETHICS; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; EXTERNAL VALIDITY; HUMAN; INTERNAL VALIDITY; JUSTICE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; PATIENT AUTONOMY; QUALITY CONTROL; RESEARCH; REVIEW; SOCIOLOGY; SYSTEMATIC ERROR; ARTICLE; DECISION MAKING; EMPIRICAL RESEARCH; ETHICS; LITERATURE; MEDICAL ETHICS;

DECISION MAKING; EMPIRICAL RESEARCH; ETHICS, CLINICAL; ETHICS, MEDICAL; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; HUMANS; REVIEW LITERATURE AS TOPIC;

EID: 55149098319     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726939     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6939-9-16     Document Type: Review

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