Evidence-based medicine in BURNS revisited-The need for the CONSORT criteria

Burns

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 156-157

  Knobloch, Karsten ^a   Gohritz, Andreas ^a   Spies, Marcus ^a   Rennekampff, Hans Oliver ^a   Vogt, Peter M ^a  

^a HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BURN; CLINICAL STUDY; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; LETTER; MEDICAL LITERATURE;

BURNS; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; HUMANS; PERIODICALS AS TOPIC; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC;

EID: 58149136850     PISSN: 03054179     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.burns.2008.05.026     Document Type: Letter

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