Medical reversal: What are you doing wrong for your patient today?

EMA - Emergency Medicine Australasia

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 1-3

  Fatovich, Daniel M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CONFLICT OF INTEREST; EFFECT SIZE; GOLD STANDARD; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; LAW SUIT; MEDICAL REVERSAL; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT CARE; PEER REVIEW; PERCEPTION; PHLEBOTOMY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESUSCITATION; STUDY DESIGN; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW (TOPIC); VALIDITY;

BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; HUMANS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84873469880     PISSN: 17426731     EISSN: 17426723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1742-6723.12044     Document Type: Article

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