Levels of evidence in the neurosurgical literature: More tribulations than trials

Neurosurgery

Volumn 71, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1131-1137

  Yarascavitch, Blake A ^a   Chuback, Jennifer E ^a   Almenawer, Saleh A ^a   Reddy, Kesava ^a   Bhandari, Mohit ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

EBM; Evidence based medicine; Neurosurgery

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AWARENESS; EDUCATION; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; HUMAN; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; MULTICENTER STUDY (TOPIC); NEUROSURGERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLICATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); RATING SCALE; WRITING;

BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; DATABASES, FACTUAL; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; HUMANS; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; PUBLISHING; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC;

EID: 84870065690     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1227/NEU.0b013e318271bc99     Document Type: Article

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