Introduction to systematic reviews of animal studies

Chinese Journal of Evidence-Based Medicine

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2005, Pages

  Xiong, Wei ^a   Wei, Qiang ^a   Liu, Xuemei ^a  

^a SICHUAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Animal study; Methodology; Preclinical research; Systematic review

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; CLINICAL PRACTICE; EVALUATION; METHODOLOGY; NONHUMAN; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; REVIEW; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW;

EID: 20044363794     PISSN: 16722531     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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