The feasibility of creating a checklist for the assessment of the methodological quality both of randomised and non-randomised studies of health care interventions

Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health

Volumn 52, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 377-384

  Downs, Sara H ^a   Black, Nick ^a  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL RESEARCH; METHODOLOGY; OBSERVER VARIATION; QUALITY CONTROL; RELIABILITY; SCORING SYSTEM; TRAINING;

EID: 0031754739     PISSN: 0143005X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jech.52.6.377     Document Type: Article

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