Where Is the Evidence for Treatments Used in Pesticide Poisoning? Is Clinical Toxicology Fiddling While the Developing World Burns?
- 1 January 2004
- journal article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Journal of Toxicology: Clinical Toxicology
- Vol. 42 (1) , 113-116
- https://doi.org/10.1081/clt-120028756
Abstract
In 1996 an editorial explicitly stated what most clinical toxicologists already knew—that it was not possible to practice ‘evidence based medicine’ in clinical toxicology 1. This was because there ...Keywords
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