Adolphe Vorderman's 1897 study on beriberi: An example of scrupulous efforts to avoid bias

Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine

Volumn 106, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 108-111

  Vandenbroucke, Jan P ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

THIAMINE;

ARTICLE; BERIBERI; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; METHODOLOGY; MUNG BEAN; PRISONER; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; THIAMINE DEFICIENCY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HISTORY; HUMAN; METABOLISM; PRISON;

BERIBERI; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); HISTORY, 19TH CENTURY; HUMANS; PRISONS; THIAMINE; THIAMINE DEFICIENCY;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84877323079     PISSN: 01410768     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0141076813478790     Document Type: Article

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