Observational studies often make clinical practice recommendations: An empirical evaluation of authors' attitudes

Journal of Clinical Epidemiology

Volumn 66, Issue 4, 2013, Pages

  Prasad, Vinay ^a   Jorgenson, Joel ^b   Ioannidis, John P A ^c   Cifu, Adam ^d  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Clinical trials; Epidemiology; Hierarchy of research design; Observational studies; Randomized trials; Reversal

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); DATA EXTRACTION; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MEDICAL LITERATURE; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); STATISTICS;

EID: 84875262971     PISSN: 08954356     EISSN: 18785921     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jclinepi.2012.11.005     Document Type: Review

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