Press releases by academic medical centers: Not so academic?

Annals of Internal Medicine

Volumn 150, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 613-618

  Woloshin, Steven ^a   Schwartz, Lisa M ^a   Casella, Samuel L ^c   Kennedy, Abigail T ^b   Larson, Robin J ^a  

^a VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b DARTMOUTH MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c DARTMOUTH INSTITUTE FOR HEALTH POLICY AND CLINICAL PRACTICE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; LABORATORY TEST; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MEDICAL SCHOOL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL; ANIMAL; HUMAN; MASS MEDIUM; STANDARD; UNITED STATES;

ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTERS; ANIMALS; BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; HUMANS; MASS MEDIA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 65649099744     PISSN: 00034819     EISSN: 15393704     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7326/0003-4819-150-9-200905050-00007     Document Type: Article

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