Selling real-world health care research to reluctant buyers - Evidence based education or marketing a defective product?

Journal of Managed Care Pharmacy

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 294-296

  Fairman, Kathleen A ^a  

^a Kathleen Fairman LTD   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL RESEARCH; DECISION MAKING; EDITORIAL; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; PEER REVIEW; PUBLICATION; QUALITY CONTROL; RESEARCH PRIORITY; STANDARDIZATION;

EID: 65449161775     PISSN: 10834087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.18553/jmcp.2009.15.3.294     Document Type: Editorial

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