How do you know which health care effectiveness research you can trust? A guide to study design for the perplexed

Preventing Chronic Disease

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 2015, Pages

  Soumerai, Stephen B ^a   Starr, Douglas ^b   Majumdar, Sumit R ^c  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYPNOTIC SEDATIVE AGENT; INFLUENZA VACCINE;

AGED; CHILD; COMPARATIVE EFFECTIVENESS; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; ECONOMICS; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HIP FRACTURE; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; METHODOLOGY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PEDIATRIC OBESITY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PROCEDURES; PUBLISHING; QUALITY CONTROL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); REPRODUCIBILITY; SELECTION BIAS; SOCIAL DESIRABILITY; STANDARDS; STATISTICAL BIAS;

AGED; BENCHMARKING; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); CHILD; COMPARATIVE EFFECTIVENESS RESEARCH; CONFOUNDING FACTORS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS; EPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; HIP FRACTURES; HUMANS; HYPNOTICS AND SEDATIVES; INFLUENZA VACCINES; ORGANIZATIONAL CASE STUDIES; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PEDIATRIC OBESITY; PUBLISHING; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RESEARCH DESIGN; SELECTION BIAS; SOCIAL DESIRABILITY; TRUTH DISCLOSURE;

EID: 84936940087     PISSN: 15451151     EISSN: 21665435     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5888/pcd12.150187     Document Type: Article

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