Levels of evidence and quality of randomized controlled trials in hand and wrist surgery: An analysis of two major hand surgery journals

Journal of Hand Surgery: European Volume

Volumn 39, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 900-902

  Post, S F ^a   Selles, R W ^a   McGrouther, D A ^a   Ritt, M J P F ^a   Hovius, S E R ^a   Friden J ^a   Walbeehm, E T ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; HAND; HUMAN; PUBLICATION; PUBLISHING; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; SURGERY; WRIST;

EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; HAND; HUMANS; PERIODICALS AS TOPIC; PUBLISHING; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; WRIST;

EID: 84908158417     PISSN: 17531934     EISSN: 20436289     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1753193413495369     Document Type: Letter

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