The clinical case report: A review of its merits and limitations

BMC Research Notes

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Nissen, Trygve ^a,b   Wynn, Rolf ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF NORTH NORWAY   (Norway)

Author keywords

Case reports; Case series; Limitations; Merits; Methodology

Indexed keywords

HUMAN; MEDICAL RESEARCH; METHODOLOGY; PROCEDURES; PUBLICATION;

BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; HUMANS; PERIODICALS AS TOPIC; RESEARCH DESIGN;

EID: 84899971879     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17560500     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1756-0500-7-264     Document Type: Article

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