Why do we always end up here? Evidence-based medicine's conceptual cul-de-sacs and some off-road alternative routes

Journal of Primary Health Care

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 92-97

  Greenhalgh, Trisha ^a  

^a QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 84862505071     PISSN: 11726164     EISSN: 11726156     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/hc12092     Document Type: Article

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