Unbiased, Relevant, and Reliable Assessments in Health Care: Important Progress During the Past Century, but Plenty of Scope for Doing Better

Overview

Journal BMJ

Specialty General Medicine

Date 1998 Oct 31

PMID 9794844

Citations 16

Authors

I Chalmers

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