The practice of systematic reviews. II. Searching and selection of studies;De praktijk van systematische reviews. II. Zoeken en selecteren van literatuur

Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Geneeskunde

Volumn 143, Issue 13, 1999, Pages 656-661

  Assendelft, W J J ^a,b   Van Tulder, M W ^a   Scholten, R J P M ^a   Bouter, L M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DATA BASE; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDICAL RESEARCH;

BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); DATABASES, BIBLIOGRAPHIC; HUMANS; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; NETHERLANDS; ONLINE SYSTEMS; PUBLISHING; REGISTRIES; RESEARCH; SELECTION (GENETICS);

EID: 0033608696     PISSN: 00282162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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