Advances and limitations of evidence-based medicine-impact for probiotics

Annals of Nutrition and Metabolism

Volumn 57, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2010, Pages 6-9

  Szajewska, Hania ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROBIOTIC AGENT;

ACUTE GASTROENTERITIS; ALLERGY; BIFIDOBACTERIUM; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONSTIPATION; CROHN DISEASE; DIARRHEA; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM FUNCTION DISORDER; DRUG INDICATION; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; HELICOBACTER INFECTION; HUMAN; ILEITIS; IRRITABLE COLON; LACTIC ACID BACTERIUM; LACTOBACILLUS; META ANALYSIS; NECROTIZING ENTEROCOLITIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; SACCHAROMYCES BOULARDII; SHORT SURVEY; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TRAVELLER DIARRHEA; ULCERATIVE COLITIS;

EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; HUMANS; META-ANALYSIS AS TOPIC; PROBIOTICS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC;

EID: 77956499112     PISSN: 02506807     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000309015     Document Type: Short Survey

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