Evidence-Based Medicine applied to the control of communicable disease incidents when evidence is scarce and the time is limited

Eurosurveillance

Volumn 18, Issue 25, 2013, Pages

  Palmer, S ^a   Jansen, A ^b   Leitmeyer, K ^b   Murdoch, H ^c   Forland, F ^b,d  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR DISEASE PREVENTION AND CONTROL ECDC   (Sweden)

^c HEALTH PROTECTION SCOTLAND   (United Kingdom)

^d ROYAL TROPICAL INSTITUTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; HUMAN; MEDICAL AUDIT; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); PUBLIC HEALTH; RISK ASSESSMENT; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW (TOPIC);

EID: 84879310951     PISSN: 1025496X     EISSN: 15607917     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2807/1560-7917.ES2013.18.25.20507     Document Type: Article

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