Hierarchy of evidence relating to hand surgery in Brazilian orthopedic journals;A hierarquia das evidências em cirurgia da mão nas revistas ortopédicas nacionais

Sao Paulo Medical Journal

Volumn 129, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 94-98

  de Moraes, Vinícius Ynoe ^a   Belloti, João Carlos ^a   de Moraes, Fábio Ynoe ^a,b   Galbiatti, José Antonio ^a,b   Palácio, Evandro Pereira ^a,c   dos Santos, João Baptista Gomes ^a   Faloppa, Flávio ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b Immune Hematology Sector of the Hematology Center   (Brazil)

^c Faculdade Estadual de Medicina de Marília Famema   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Epidemiologic methods; Evidence based medicine; Hand; Orthopedics; Research design

Indexed keywords

CONTROLLED STUDY; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; HAND SURGERY; MEDICAL LITERATURE; METHODOLOGY; ORTHOPEDICS; PUBLICATION; PUBLISHING; REVIEW;

BIBLIOMETRICS; BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; HAND; HUMANS; PERIODICALS AS TOPIC; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RESEARCH DESIGN; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 79957794638     PISSN: 15163180     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/S1516-31802011000200007     Document Type: Review

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