Prevention of substance abuse: Randomised or observational evaluation is absolutely needed;Prevención del consumo de sustancias: la absoluta necesidad de una evaluación aleatorizada u observacional

Adicciones

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 11-14

  Faggiano, Fabrizio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN PIEDMONT   (Italy)

Author keywords

Drug prevention; Evaluation; Observational methodology; Randomization

Indexed keywords

ADDICTION; EDITORIAL; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL;

HUMANS; PROGRAM EVALUATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; SUBSTANCE-RELATED DISORDERS;

EID: 77949754064     PISSN: 02144840     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.20882/adicciones.209     Document Type: Article

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