SURGE (The SUrvey Reporting GuidelinE)

Guidelines for Reporting Health Research: A User's Manual

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 206-213

  Grimshaw, Jeremy ^a  

^a OTTAWA HOSPITAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Health services; SURGE (The SUrvey Reporting GuidelinE); Survey research papers; Survey research report

Indexed keywords

EID: 85178372504     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: None     Document Type: Chapter

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