"No language restrictions" in database searches: What does this really mean?

Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 205-207

  Pilkington, Karen ^a,b   Boshnakova, Anelia ^a   Clarke, Mike ^c   Richardson, Janet ^a,d  

^a Research Council for Complementary Medicine   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTMINSTER   (United Kingdom)

^c UK COCHRANE CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE; ARTICLE; DATA BASE; EMBASE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY; MEDLINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW;

ABSTRACTING AND INDEXING; DATABASES, BIBLIOGRAPHIC; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; PERIODICALS; PUBLICATION BIAS; PUBLISHING;

EID: 14744273649     PISSN: 10755535     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/acm.2005.11.205     Document Type: Article

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