Strategies to improve clinical research in surgery through international collaboration

The Lancet

Volumn 382, Issue 9898, 2013, Pages 1140-1151

  Søreide, Kjetil ^a,b   Alderson, Derek ^c   Bergenfelz, Anders ^d   Beynon, John ^e   Connor, Saxon ^f   Deckelbaum, Dan L ^g   Dejong, Cornelis H ^h   Earnshaw, Jonathan J ⁱ   Kyamanywa, Patrick ^j   Perez, Rodrigo O ^k   Sakai, Yoshiharu ^l   Winter, Desmond C ^m  

^a STAVANGER UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS BIRMINGHAM NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^d LUND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^e ABERTAWE BRO MORGANNWG UNIVERSITY HEALTH BOARD   (United Kingdom)

^f CHRISTCHURCH HOSPITAL   (New Zealand)

^g MCGILL UNIVERSITY HEALTH CENTRE   (Canada)

^h MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

ⁱ GLOUCESTERSHIRE ROYAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^j UNIVERSITY OF RWANDA   (Rwanda)

^k UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^l KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^m ST VINCENT S UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Ireland)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL RESEARCH; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH INSURANCE; HEART SURGERY; HUMAN; MEDICAL ETHICS; ORTHOPEDIC SURGERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT;

EID: 84884648125     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: 1474547X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(13)61455-5     Document Type: Review

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