Correcting themedical literature: "to err is human, to correct divine"

JAMA - Journal of the American Medical Association

Volumn 318, Issue 9, 2017, Pages 804-805

  Christiansen, Stacy ^a   Flanagin, Annette ^a  

^a JAMA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; EDITORIAL; ERROR; HUMAN; MEASUREMENT ACCURACY; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLICATION; PUBLISHING; QUALITY CONTROL; REPLICATION STUDY; STANDARDS;

EDITORIAL POLICIES; PERIODICALS AS TOPIC; RETRACTION OF PUBLICATION AS TOPIC;

EID: 85028919693     PISSN: 00987484     EISSN: 15383598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jama.2017.11833     Document Type: Editorial

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