Determining prognosis and creating clinical decision rules

Clinical Epidemiology: How to Do Clinical Practice Research: Third Edition

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 323-355

  Guyatt, Gordon H ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

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