Bias, Biostatistics, and Prognostic Factors
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منابع مشابه
[Bias, biostatistics, and prognostic factors].
Prognostic factors are essential for patient management and counseling. Most cancer patients receive treatment based on the presence or absence of several risk factors. The most prominent example of this is tumor, node, metastasis staging, but many diseases are moving beyond the simple one-sizefits-all stage classification and using stylized prognostic factors. A notable difficulty in the devel...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Thoracic Oncology
سال: 2011
ISSN: 1556-0864
DOI: 10.1097/jto.0b013e31821e7ae7