Quantitative synthesis in systematic reviews

Annals of Internal Medicine

Volumn 127, Issue 9, 1997, Pages 820-826

  Lau, Joseph ^a   Ioannidis, John P A ^a,b   Schmid, Christopher H ^a  

^a TUFTS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA ANALYSIS; META ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLICATION; REVIEW; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0030693603     PISSN: 00034819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7326/0003-4819-127-9-199711010-00008     Document Type: Review

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