Design of a methodological quality scale for prognostic studies;Diseño de una escala para la evaluación de calidad metodológica de estudios de pronóstico

Revista Chilena de Cirugia

Volumn 61, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 59-72

  Losada M, Héctor ^a,b   Manterola D, Carlos ^a,b   Pineda N, Viviana ^a,b   Vial G, Manuel ^a,b   Sanhueza R, Antonio ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE LA FRONTERA   (Chile)

^b Hospital Regional de Temuco   (Chile)

Author keywords

Methodological quality; Prognosis articles; Scale design

Indexed keywords

EID: 67649647742     PISSN: 03793893     EISSN: 07184026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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