Comparative effectiveness research: Challenges for medical journals

نویسندگان

  • Harold C Sox
  • Mark Helfand
  • Jeremy Grimshaw
  • Kay Dickersin
  • David Tovey
  • J André Knottnerus
  • Peter Tugwell
چکیده

Editors from a number of medical journals lay out principles for journals considering publication of Comparative Effectiveness Research (CER). In order to encourage dissemination of this editorial, this article is freely available in PLoS Medicine and will be also published in Medical Decision Making, Croatian Medical Journal, The Cochrane Library, Trials, The American Journal of Managed Care, and Journal of Clinical Epidemiology.

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دوره 11  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2010