Prescribing sentence: Time for evidence-based justice

Lancet

Volumn 364, Issue 9443, 2004, Pages 1457-1459

  Bird, Prof Sheila M ^a  

^a MRC BIOSTATISTICS UNIT   (United Kingdom)

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Indexed keywords

CALCULATION; CLINICAL RESEARCH; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; CRIMINAL JUSTICE; DATA BASE; DECISION MAKING; DRUG RESEARCH; HUMAN; MEDICAL ETHICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAFETY; SHORT SURVEY;

EID: 5644244773     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(04)17230-9     Document Type: Note

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