A taxonomy has been developed for outcomes in medical research to help improve knowledge discovery
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A taxonomy has been developed for outcomes in medical research to help improve knowledge discovery
OBJECTIVES There is increasing recognition that insufficient attention has been paid to the choice of outcomes measured in clinical trials. The lack of a standardized outcome classification system results in inconsistencies due to ambiguity and variation in how outcomes are described across different studies. Being able to classify by outcome would increase efficiency in searching sources such ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Clinical Epidemiology
سال: 2018
ISSN: 0895-4356
DOI: 10.1016/j.jclinepi.2017.12.020