The metaanalysis of clinical studies: The philosopher's stone or stumbling block?;Metaanalyse klinischer studien: Stein der weisen oder des anstosses?

Strahlentherapie und Onkologie

Volumn 175, Issue SUPPL. 1, 1999, Pages 17-20

  Baumann, Michael ^a  

^a DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MEDICAL RESEARCH; META ANALYSIS; METHODOLOGY; RELIABILITY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW;

CLINICAL TRIALS; HUMANS; META-ANALYSIS; REVIEW LITERATURE; STATISTICS;

EID: 0032694801     PISSN: 01797158     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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