What does it take to put an ugly fact through the heart of a beautiful hypothesis?

Annals of Internal Medicine

Volumn 150, Issue 6, 2009, Pages

  Haynes, Brian ^a   Haynes, Graeme A ^b  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL TRIAL; EDITORIAL; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HUMAN; MEDICAL RESEARCH; STANDARD;

BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HUMANS;

EID: 63849284935     PISSN: 00034819     EISSN: 15393704     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Editorial

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