How to apply the evidence-based medicine concept to nuclear medicine diagnostic studies - A review

Nuclear Medicine Review

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 59-64

  Sadeghi, Ramin ^a   Zakavi, Rasoul ^a   Kakhki, Vahid Reza Dabbagh ^a  

^a MASHHAD UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Critical appraisal; Evidence based medicine; Nuclear medicine

Indexed keywords

EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; MEDICAL PRACTICE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; RADIODIAGNOSIS; REVIEW;

CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; NUCLEAR MEDICINE; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED;

EID: 77951009529     PISSN: 15069680     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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