Getting to grips with GRADE - Perspective from a low-income setting

Journal of Clinical Epidemiology

Volumn 64, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 708-710

  English, Mike ^a,b   Opiyo, Newton ^a  

^a KEMRI WELLCOME TRUST RESEARCH PROGRAMME   (Kenya)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CASE MANAGEMENT; CHILD DEATH; CHILD HEALTH; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL DEVELOPMENT PLAN; CLINICAL EVALUATION; COCHRANE LIBRARY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; FUNDING; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; KENYA; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; MALARIA; MATERNAL MORTALITY; MORTALITY; NEWBORN DEATH; NOTE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PANDEMIC; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; TUBERCULOSIS; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; EVIDENCE-BASED PRACTICE; HUMANS; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; REVIEW LITERATURE AS TOPIC;

EID: 79956190807     PISSN: 08954356     EISSN: 18785921     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jclinepi.2010.07.016     Document Type: Note

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