Getting to grips with systematic reviews and meta-analyses

Hospital Medicine

Volumn 59, Issue 12, 1998, Pages 955-958

  Davies, Huw T O ^a   Crombie, Ian K ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; LITERATURE; META ANALYSIS; METHODOLOGY;

EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; META-ANALYSIS; RESEARCH DESIGN; REVIEW LITERATURE;

EID: 0032222908     PISSN: 14623935     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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