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Why my disease is important: metrics of disease occurrence used in the introductory sections of papers in three leading general medical journals in 1993 and 2003

BACKGROUND: We assessed the metrics used in claims about disease importance made in the introductory sections of scientific papers published in 1993 and 2003. We were interested in the choice of metric in circumstances where establishing the relative social importance of a disease was, presumptively...

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Autores principales: Gouda, Hebe N, Powles, John W
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3118323/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21605431
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1478-7954-9-14