Randomised health services studies

International Journal of Cancer

Volumn 131, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 2898-2902

  Hakama, Matti ^a,b   Malila, Nea ^a,b   Dillner, Joakim ^c,d  

^a FINNISH CANCER REGISTRY   (Finland)

^b TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

^c LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^d KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

epidemiology; evaluation; health services; randomised; routine practice

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MEDICAL RESEARCH; NOMENCLATURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); RANDOMIZED HEALTH SERVICES STUDIES;

HUMANS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; RESEARCH DESIGN;

EID: 84867877837     PISSN: 00207136     EISSN: 10970215     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ijc.27561     Document Type: Article

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