Clinician-trialist rounds: 16. Mind your explanatory and pragmatic attitudes! - Part 1: What?

Clinical Trials

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 495-498

  Sackett, David L ^a  

^a Trout Research and Education Centre at Irish Lake   (Canada)

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Indexed keywords

PLACEBO; RIBOFLAVIN;

AORTA ANEURYSM; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; COMPARATIVE EFFECTIVENESS; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; DEATH; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; FOLLOW UP; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEART INFARCTION; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; KIDNEY FAILURE; OUTPATIENT; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PHASE 3 CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); RESIDENT; RETINA HEMORRHAGE; RISK REDUCTION;

HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; RESEARCH DESIGN;

EID: 84878242207     PISSN: 17407745     EISSN: 17407753     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1740774513484395     Document Type: Article

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