Compellingness: Assessing the practical relevance of clinical research results

Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 962-967

  Tonelli, Mark R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

clinical decision making; clinical research; epistemology; evidence based medicine; study design

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CLINICAL RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STUDY DESIGN;

BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; CLINICAL MEDICINE; DIFFUSION OF INNOVATION; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; HEALTH CARE COSTS; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; PATIENT SAFETY; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC;

EID: 84866706320     PISSN: 13561294     EISSN: 13652753     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2753.2012.01901.x     Document Type: Article

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