Designing and reporting case series in plastic surgery

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 128, Issue 4, 2011, Pages

  Coroneos, Christopher J ^a,b   Ignacy, Teegan A ^a,b   Thoma, Achilleas ^a,b,c  

^a Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery   (United States)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c NONE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANADA; CASE CONTROL STUDY; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; METHODOLOGY; PATIENT SELECTION; PLASTIC SURGERY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); REPRODUCIBILITY; RESEARCH; REVIEW; STANDARD;

BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COHORT STUDIES; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; ONTARIO; PATIENT SELECTION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RESEARCH DESIGN; RESEARCH REPORT; SURGERY, PLASTIC;

EID: 80052971102     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/PRS.0b013e318221f2ec     Document Type: Article

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