Users' Guide to the Surgical Literature. How to Assess a Randomized Controlled Trial in Surgery

Overview

Journal Can J Surg

Specialty General Surgery

Date 2004 Jul 22

PMID 15264385

Citations 25

Authors

Achilleas Thoma

Forough Farrokhyar

Mohit Bhandari

Ved Tandan

Affiliations

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