Hierarchy of evidence: a framework for ranking evidence evaluating healthcare interventions
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- 20 December 2002
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Wiley in Journal of Clinical Nursing
- Vol. 12 (1), 77-84
- https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1365-2702.2003.00662.x
Abstract
• A number of hierarchies of evidence have been developed to enable different research methods to be ranked according to the validity of their findings. However, most have focused on evaluation of th...Keywords
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