The judgement process in evidence-based medicine and health technology assessment

Social Theory and Health

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 1-19

  Kelly, Michael P ^a,b   Moore, Tessa A ^c  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR HEALTH AND CARE EXCELLENCE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c Head of School Effectiveness   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

evidence based medicine; external validity; health technology assessment; hierarchy of evidence; internal validity; randomised controlled trials

Indexed keywords

EID: 84855373596     PISSN: 14778211     EISSN: 1477822X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1057/sth.2011.21     Document Type: Article

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