Surgical research: act 3, answers

The Lancet

Volumn 374, Issue 9695, 2009, Pages 1039-1040

  Meakins, Jonathan L ^a,b  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANESTHESIST; ARTICLE; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CLINICAL RESEARCH; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; EXPERIMENTAL THERAPY; EXPERT SYSTEM; GALLSTONE; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; MEDICAL EXPERT; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT CARE; PHYSICIAN; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SCIENTIST; STANDARD; SURGEON; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THERAPY EFFECT; TRAINING;

EID: 70349277448     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(09)61681-0     Document Type: Note

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