Meta-analysis: An Update

Mount Sinai Journal of Medicine

Volumn 63, Issue 3-4, 1996, Pages 216-224

  Sacks, Henry S ^a   Reitman, Dinah ^b   Pagano, Daniel ^b   Kupelnick, Bruce ^b  

^a MOUNT SINAI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; EPIDEMIOLOGY; INFORMATION PROCESSING; META ANALYSIS; METHODOLOGY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REPRODUCIBILITY; REVIEW; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); DATA COLLECTION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; META-ANALYSIS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RESEARCH DESIGN;

EID: 0030141077     PISSN: 00272507     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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