The RCT means nothing to me!

Manual Therapy

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 614-617

  Littlewood, Chris ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Continuing professional development; Evidence based practice; Randomised controlled trial; Research methodology

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; DATA ANALYSIS; DATA COLLECTION METHOD; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; EXERCISE; GOLD STANDARD; MANIPULATIVE MEDICINE; METHODOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); ROTATOR CUFF INJURY; SAMPLE SIZE; SAMPLING;

EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; RESEARCH DESIGN; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 80054104944     PISSN: 1356689X     EISSN: 15322769     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.math.2011.06.006     Document Type: Article

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