Randomized trials in surgery

Surgery

Volumn 145, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 581-587

  Gelijns, Annetine C ^a   Ascheim, Deborah D ^a   Parides, Michael K ^a   Kent, K Craig ^b   Moskowitz, Alan J ^a  

^a MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

ADVANCED CANCER; BREAST CANCER; CAROTID ENDARTERECTOMY; CLINICAL RESEARCH; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DRUG ELUTING STENT; DRUG MEGADOSE; EDITORIAL; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; EXPERIMENTAL THERAPY; HEART ASSIST DEVICE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; METHODOLOGY; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGEON; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THORAX SURGERY; TREATMENT PLANNING;

CHRONIC DISEASE; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DRUG THERAPY; ETHICS, MEDICAL; HUMANS; LEARNING; ORGANIZATION AND ADMINISTRATION; QUALITY OF LIFE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, OPERATIVE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 66049128834     PISSN: 00396060     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.surg.2009.04.003     Document Type: Editorial

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