Journal of Clinical Epidemiology
Volume 59, Issue 9 , Pages 907-913 , September 2006

Dealing with the media

  • David L. Sackett

      Affiliations

    • Kilgore S. Trout Research–Education Centre at Irish Lake, RR1, Markdale, Ontario, Canada N0C 1H0
    • Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, McMaster University Faculty of Health Sciences, 1200 Main Street West, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada L8N 3Z5
    • Department of Medicine, McMaster University Faculty of Health Sciences, 1200 Main Street West, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada L8N 3Z5
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: 519-986-4983.
    • ,
  • R. Brian Haynes

      Affiliations

    • Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, McMaster University Faculty of Health Sciences, 1200 Main Street West, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada L8N 3Z5
    • Department of Medicine, McMaster University Faculty of Health Sciences, 1200 Main Street West, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada L8N 3Z5
    • ,
  • Gordon H. Guyatt

      Affiliations

    • Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, McMaster University Faculty of Health Sciences, 1200 Main Street West, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada L8N 3Z5
    • Department of Medicine, McMaster University Faculty of Health Sciences, 1200 Main Street West, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada L8N 3Z5
    • ,
  • Peter Tugwell

      Affiliations

    • Institute for Population Health, University of Ottawa, One Stewart Street, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K1N 6N5
    • Tel.: 613-562-5660; fax: 613-562-5659.

,Accepted 16 June 2006.

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☆ Based on Chapter 17 of Haynes RB, Sackett DL, Guyatt GH, Tugwell P. Clinical epidemiology: how to do clinical practice research. Philadelphia: Lippincott, Williams, Wilkins; 2005.

PII: S0895-4356(06)00236-8

doi: 10.1016/j.jclinepi.2006.06.004

Journal of Clinical Epidemiology
Volume 59, Issue 9 , Pages 907-913 , September 2006

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