Scientific evaluation of modern clinical research: We need a new currency!

Langenbeck's Archives of Surgery

Volumn 396, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 937-939

  Büchler, Markus W ^a   Diener, Markus K ^a   Weitz, Jürgen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

CITATION ANALYSIS; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CLINICAL RESEARCH; CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MEDICAL SOCIETY; MULTICENTER STUDY (TOPIC); NOTE; PHASE 3 CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLICATION; PUBLISHING; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); RISK ASSESSMENT; SCIENTIFIC EVALUATION;

BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; GERMANY; HUMANS; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; PROGRAM EVALUATION; QUALITY IMPROVEMENT; RESEARCH DESIGN;

EID: 80052857115     PISSN: 14352443     EISSN: 14352451     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00423-011-0842-3     Document Type: Note

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