Benchmarking in surgical research

The Lancet

Volumn 374, Issue 9695, 2009, Pages 1045-1047

  Ashrafian, Hutan ^a   Rao, Christopher ^a   Darzi, Ara ^a   Athanasiou, Thanos ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIBLIOMETRICS; CLINICAL EDUCATION; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CLINICAL RESEARCH; FUTUROLOGY; MARKET; MEDICAL SCHOOL; MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY; PEER REVIEW; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLICATION; QUALITY CONTROL; SURGEON; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

EID: 70349288298     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(09)61684-6     Document Type: Note

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