Sesgos en el metaanálisis;Bias in meta-analysis

Medicina Clinica

Volumn 112, Issue SUPPL. 1, 1999, Pages 43-50

  Delgado Rodríguez, Miguel ^b   Sillero Arenas, María ^a  

^a Delegacion Prov para la Salud   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CANTABRIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONFLICT OF INTEREST; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HUMAN; META ANALYSIS; PUBLISHING; QUALITY CONTROL; REVIEW; STANDARD; STATISTICS; TECHNIQUE;

CONFLICT OF INTEREST; HUMANS; META-ANALYSIS; METHODS; PUBLISHING; QUALITY CONTROL; SELECTION BIAS; STATISTICS;

EID: 17544395481     PISSN: 00257753     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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