Primary versus secondary outcomes in gargantuan studies

Anesthesiology

Volumn 111, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 704-705

  Flood, Pamela ^a  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPIATE; ROPIVACAINE; SUFENTANIL;

CESAREAN SECTION; EDITORIAL; EPIDURAL ANESTHESIA; INSTRUMENTAL DELIVERY; LABOR; LABOR PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UTERINE CERVIX DILATATION;

EID: 70349669127     PISSN: 00033022     EISSN: 15281175     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/ALN.0b013e3181b55e88     Document Type: Editorial

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