The marriage of evidence and narrative: Scientific nurturance within clinical practice

Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 585-593

  Silva, Suzana Alves ^a   Charon, Rita ^b   Wyer, Peter C ^b  

^a Teaching and Research Center of Pro Cardiaco   (Brazil)

^b College of Physicians and Surgeons ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

evidence based medicine; knowledge translation; narrative medicine; problem delineation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CLINICAL RESEARCH; COGNITION; ELECTRONIC DATA INTERCHANGE; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; HEALTH LITERACY; HEALTH PRACTITIONER; HUMAN; LEARNING; MEDICAL PRACTICE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; NONBIOLOGICAL MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; HUMANS; INTERDISCIPLINARY COMMUNICATION; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NARRATION; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS;

EID: 79961095229     PISSN: 13561294     EISSN: 13652753     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2753.2010.01551.x     Document Type: Article

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