The quality of the evidence base for clinical pathway effectiveness: Room for improvement in the design of evaluation trials

BMC Medical Research Methodology

Volumn 12, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Rotter, Thomas ^a   Kinsman, Leigh ^b   James, Erica ^c   MacHotta, Andreas ^d   Steyerberg, Ewout W ^e  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

^d SOPHIA CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

^e ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL PATHWAY; CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); COMPARATIVE STUDY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; HUMAN; LENGTH OF STAY; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); METHODOLOGY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); REPRODUCIBILITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; STANDARD; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; CRITICAL PATHWAYS; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; META-ANALYSIS AS TOPIC; OUTCOME AND PROCESS ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RESEARCH DESIGN; RISK ASSESSMENT; SELECTION BIAS;

EID: 84862248712     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712288     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2288-12-80     Document Type: Article

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