How many contemporary medical practices are worse than doing nothing or doing less?

Mayo Clinic Proceedings

Volumn 88, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 779-781

  Ioannidis, John P A ^a,b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL RESEARCH; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HUMAN; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDICAL PRACTICE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PUBLICATION; REVIEW; TREATMENT RESPONSE;

EID: 84884674826     PISSN: 00256196     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mayocp.2013.05.010     Document Type: Editorial

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