Limitations of medical research and evidence at the patient-clinician encounter scale

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Volumn 143, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 1127-1135

  Morris, Alan H ^a   Ioannidis, John P A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CLINICAL RESEARCH; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT CLINICIAN ENCOUNTER SCALE; PATIENT SAFETY; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RATING SCALE; RELIABILITY; REPRODUCIBILITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK BENEFIT ANALYSIS; TRUST; VALIDITY;

EID: 84875991529     PISSN: 00123692     EISSN: 19313543     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1378/chest.12-1908     Document Type: Article

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