From Evidence Based Medicine to Medicine Based Evidence

American Journal of Medicine

Volumn 130, Issue 11, 2017, Pages 1246-1250

  Horwitz, Ralph I ^a   Hayes Conroy, Allison ^a   Caricchio, Roberto ^a   Singer, Burton H ^b  

^a TEMPLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Approximate match; Decision making; Patient profiling; Personalized evidence

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; DISEASE COURSE; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; HUMAN; PERSONAL EXPERIENCE; PERSONALIZED MEDICINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; COMPARATIVE EFFECTIVENESS; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PATIENT CARE; PROCEDURES; STANDARDS;

CLINICAL DECISION-MAKING; COMPARATIVE EFFECTIVENESS RESEARCH; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; HUMANS; PATIENT-CENTERED CARE;

EID: 85027533563     PISSN: 00029343     EISSN: 15557162     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amjmed.2017.06.012     Document Type: Review

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