Evidence-based clinical significance in health care: Toward an inferential analysis of clinical relevance

Dental Hypotheses

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 165-177

  Dousti, Mahsa ^a   Ramchandani, Manisha H ^a   Chiappelli, Francesco ^a  

^a UCLA SCHOOL OF DENTISTRY   (United States)

Author keywords

Clinical relevance; Evidence based revision of clinical practice guidelines; Intention to treat; Number need to treat; Preventive fraction; Research synthesis; Statistical significance; Sufficiently important difference; Text analysis mining

Indexed keywords

EID: 84866847111     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21558213     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5436/j.dehy.2011.2.00042     Document Type: Article

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