Women's Health Issues
Volume 14, Issue 1 , Pages 3-6 , January 2004

Making evidence-based decisions in medicine: (or more importantly) using evidence when the case doesn't quite fit

  • Ann Barry Flood, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress correspondence to Ann Barry Flood, Professor of Health Policy and Sociology, Chair, PhD Program, Center for the Evaluative Clinical Sciences at Dartmouth, Dartmouth Medical School, 316 Strasenburgh Hall, HB 7251, Hanover, NH 03755-3863, USA.
    • Center for the Evaluative Clinical Sciences at Dartmouth, Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover, New Hampshire, USA

Received 22 December 2003

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PII: S1049-3867(03)00116-6

doi: 10.1016/j.whi.2003.12.003

Women's Health Issues
Volume 14, Issue 1 , Pages 3-6 , January 2004

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