Efficacy research and unanswered clinical questions

JAMA

Volumn 306, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 709-

  Vohra, Sunita ^a   Shamseer, Larissa ^b   Sampson, Margaret ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b OTTAWA HOSPITAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^c CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF EASTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL RESEARCH; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; HUMAN; INTERNAL VALIDITY; LETTER; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT SAFETY; PERSONALIZED MEDICINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; COMPARATIVE EFFECTIVENESS; MEDICAL RESEARCH; METHODOLOGY; NOTE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); SAMPLE SIZE; CLINICAL MEDICINE; DIABETES MELLITUS; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HYPERTENSION; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; PRIMARY PREVENTION; SMOKING;

BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; COMPARATIVE EFFECTIVENESS RESEARCH; HUMANS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; RESEARCH DESIGN; SAMPLE SIZE;

BIOCHEMICAL MARKER; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL;

EID: 80051724629     PISSN: 00987484     EISSN: 15383598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jama.2011.1150     Document Type: Letter

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