The early history of evidence-based reproductive medicine

Reproductive BioMedicine Online

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 201-209

  Johnson, Martin H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

double blind randomized controlled clinical trial; meta analysis; Murray Enkin; problem based learning (PBL); Robert Edwards

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL PRACTICE; CONFERENCE PAPER; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH SERVICE; HISTORY; HUMAN; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL ETHICS; MEDICAL RESEARCH; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); PROBLEM BASED LEARNING; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); REPRODUCTION;

DECISION MAKING; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HUMANS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; REPRODUCTIVE MEDICINE;

EID: 84875282095     PISSN: 14726483     EISSN: 14726491     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rbmo.2012.11.010     Document Type: Conference Paper

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