Marketing versus science: A fight between necessary evil and stern good over the adoption of new technology in medicine

European Urology

Volumn 58, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 522-524

  Touijer, Karim ^a  

^a MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADVERTIZING; CANCER SURGERY; EDITORIAL; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; HUMAN; KIDNEY FUNCTION; MARKETING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; PROSTATECTOMY; SURGICAL RISK; SURGICAL TECHNOLOGY;

HUMANS; MALE; MARKETING; PROSTATECTOMY; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; TECHNOLOGY, MEDICAL;

EID: 77956508524     PISSN: 03022838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eururo.2010.06.004     Document Type: Editorial

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