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“If you can keep your head …”: Clinical decision making in the age of evidence-based medicine

  • John G. Buls Lectureship
  • Diseases of the Colon & Rectum
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  1. Division of Colon and Rectal Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota

    David A. Rothenberger

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Read at the meeting of The American Society of Colon and Rectal Surgeons, New Orleans, Louisiana, June 21 to 26, 2003.

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Rothenberger, D.A. “If you can keep your head …”: Clinical decision making in the age of evidence-based medicine. Dis Colon Rectum 47, 407–412 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10350-003-0080-z

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