Editorial comment: A SIGN guideline that has considerable interpretation bias

Clinical Otolaryngology

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 325-326

  Browning, G G ^a  

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CORTICOSTEROID;

EDITORIAL; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PHARYNGITIS; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK; SORE THROAT; TONSILLECTOMY; TONSILLITIS; EAR NOSE THROAT DISEASE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HUMAN; OTORHINOLARYNGOLOGY; STANDARD;

BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; HUMANS; OTOLARYNGOLOGY; OTORHINOLARYNGOLOGIC DISEASES;

EID: 77956156034     PISSN: 17494478     EISSN: 17494486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-4486.2010.02183.x     Document Type: Editorial

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