Analysis of agreement on traditional Chinese medical diagnostics for many practitioners

Evidence-based Complementary and Alternative Medicine

Volumn 2012, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Cheng, Tsung Lin ^b   Lo, Lun Chien ^a   Huang, You Chieh ^b   Chen, Ying Ling ^a   Wang, Jeng Ting ^b  

^a CHANGHUA CHRISTIAN HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL CHANGHUA UNIVERSITY OF EDUCATION   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BOOTSTRAPPING; CHINESE MEDICINE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 80052729937     PISSN: 1741427X     EISSN: 17414288     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/2012/178081     Document Type: Article

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