Case reports describing treatments in the emergency medicine literature: Missing and misleading information

BMC Emergency Medicine

Volumn 9, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Richason, Tiffany P ^a   Paulson, Stephen M ^b   Lowenstein, Steven R ^c   Heard, Kennon J ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b DENVER HEALTH AND HOSPITAL AUTHORITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^d ROCKY MOUNTAIN POISON AND DRUG CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL RESEARCH; COMORBIDITY; DISEASE SEVERITY; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; HISTORY OF MEDICINE; INTERVENTION STUDY; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDICAL RECORD; MEDICATION THERAPY MANAGEMENT; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT INFORMATION; SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE; BIBLIOMETRICS; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; LETTER; PUBLICATION; PUBLISHING; QUALITY CONTROL; RECUMBENCY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STANDARD;

BIBLIOMETRICS; DECEPTION; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; PERIODICALS AS TOPIC; PUBLISHING; QUALITY CONTROL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 67650081183     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1471227X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-227X-9-10     Document Type: Article

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