Editorial: Vertebroplasty: About sense and nonsense of uncontrolled "controlled randomized prospective trials"

European Spine Journal

Volumn 18, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 1247-1248

  Aebi, Max ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL DISEASE; BACKACHE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPRESSION FRACTURE; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; EDITORIAL; HUMAN; INTERVENTION STUDY; KYPHOSIS; LOCAL ANESTHESIA; LUNG DISEASE; MEDICAL ETHICS; MORTALITY; OSTEOPOROSIS; PERCUTANEOUS VERTEBROPLASTY; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPHYLAXIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SPINAL PAIN; SPINE FRACTURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; EPIDEMIOLOGY; MEDICAL SOCIETY; METHODOLOGY; NOTE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PEER REVIEW; REGISTER; REPRODUCIBILITY; SAMPLE SIZE; STANDARD; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICS;

DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; FRACTURES, COMPRESSION; HUMANS; KYPHOSIS; PEER REVIEW, RESEARCH; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; REGISTRIES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SAMPLE SIZE; SELECTION BIAS; SOCIETIES, MEDICAL; SPINAL FRACTURES; VERTEBROPLASTY;

EID: 70349690640     PISSN: 09406719     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00586-009-1164-9     Document Type: Editorial

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