Practices participating in a dental PBRN have substantial and advantageous diversity even though as a group they have much in common with dentists at large

BMC Oral Health

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2009, Pages

  Makhija, Sonia K ^a   Gilbert, Gregg H ^a   Rindal, D Brad ^b   Benjamin, Paul ^c   Richman, Joshua S ^d   Pihlstrom, Daniel J ^e   Qvist, Vibeke ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^b HEALTHPARTNERS RESEARCH FOUNDATION   (United States)

^c Private practitioner   (United States)

^d University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

^e Permanente Dental Associates   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DENTAL RESEARCH; GENERAL PRACTICE; HUMAN; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; METHODOLOGY; QUESTIONNAIRE; TRANSLATIONAL RESEARCH;

CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; CULTURAL DIVERSITY; DENTAL RESEARCH; DENTIST'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; GENERAL PRACTICE, DENTAL; HUMANS; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; QUESTIONNAIRES; TRANSLATIONAL RESEARCH;

EID: 77954446947     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726831     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6831-9-26     Document Type: Article

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