Evidence based medicine: what it is and what it isn't

1996/01/13 by David L. Sackett, William Rosenberg, J. A. Muir Gray +2 · 26 citations
Health Professions · Decision Sciences · Medicine · #Health Sciences Research and Education #Meta-analysis and systematic reviews #Clinical practice guidelines implementation

paper · doi:10.1136/bmj.312.7023.71

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