Still an elusive target: Guiding practice for epilepsy surgery

Neurology

Volumn 75, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 678-679

  Wiebe, Samuel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; COMPLICATION; EDITORIAL; EPILEPSY; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH CARE NEED; HUMAN; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PATIENT CARE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE; QUALITY OF LIFE; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CLINICAL TRIAL; NEUROSURGERY; NOTE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STANDARD; STATISTICS; TIME;

CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; EPILEPSY, TEMPORAL LOBE; GUIDELINE ADHERENCE; HUMANS; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 77957939136     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: 1526632X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/WNL.0b013e3181eee510     Document Type: Editorial

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