Perspective: Transforming science into medicine: How clinician-scientists can build bridges across research's "valley of Death"

Academic Medicine

Volumn 87, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 266-270

  Roberts, Scott F ^a   Fischhoff, Martin A ^b   Sakowski, Stacey A ^c   Feldman, Eva L ^b,c  

^a Dickinson and Wright PLLC   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

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EID: 84858110949     PISSN: 10402446     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/ACM.0b013e3182446fa3     Document Type: Review

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