Validation of an index of the quality of review articles

Journal of Clinical Epidemiology

Volumn 44, Issue 11, 1991, Pages 1271-1278

  Oxman, Andrew D ^a   Guyatt, Gordon H ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bias; Information dissemination; Meta analysis; Peer review; Publishing standards; Research design; Validity of results

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; MEDICAL LITERATURE; PEER REVIEW; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; REVIEW; STANDARD;

HUMAN; META-ANALYSIS; PEER REVIEW; PERIODICALS; PUBLISHING; QUALITY CONTROL; RESEARCH DESIGN; REVIEW LITERATURE; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T;

EID: 0026094482     PISSN: 08954356     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0895-4356(91)90160-B     Document Type: Article

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