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Over the past three decades, the following view has gained increasing favor throughout the medical community: clinical practice should be based on the critical evaluation of the results obtained from medical scientific research. Today this evaluation is greatly favored by Internet which provides instantaneous online access to the most recent studies even before they appear in print form. The possibility of instantaneously accessing quality-filtered and relevance-filtered secondary publications (meta-analyses, systematic reviews, and guidelines) has become real in routine practice.

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(2009). Introduction. In: Biostatistics for Radiologists. Springer, Milano. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-88-470-1133-5_1

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