Collaborative multicenter trials in Latin America: Challenges and opportunities in orthopedic and trauma surgery;Estudos colaborativos na América Latina: Desafios e oportunidades em cirurgia ortopédica e traumatológica

Sao Paulo Medical Journal

Volumn 131, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 187-192

  de Moraes, Vinícius Ynoe ^a,b   Belloti, João Carlos ^a,b   Faloppa, Flávio ^a,b   Bhandari, Mohit ^a,b  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bone; Fractures; Latin America; Multicenter study publication type ; Orthopedics; Traumatology

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EXPLORATORY RESEARCH; HUMAN; INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH; MEDICAL SOCIETY; MORTALITY; MULTICENTER STUDY (TOPIC); ORTHOPEDIC SURGEON; ORTHOPEDIC SURGERY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); SCIENTIST; SOUTH AND CENTRAL AMERICA; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; TRAUMATOLOGY;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; CANADA; HUMANS; LATIN AMERICA; MULTICENTER STUDIES AS TOPIC; ORTHOPEDICS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; TRAUMATOLOGY; UNITED STATES; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 84880792926     PISSN: 15163180     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/1516-3180.2013.1313555     Document Type: Article

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