Evidence-based medicine and the anecdote: Uneasy bedfellows or ideal couple?
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Evidence-based medicine and the anecdote: Uneasy bedfellows or ideal couple?
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عنوان ژورنال: Paediatrics & Child Health
سال: 2006
ISSN: 1205-7088,1918-1485
DOI: 10.1093/pch/11.10.665