Systematic reviews involving complementary and alternative medicine interventions had higher quality of reporting than conventional medicine reviews

Journal of Clinical Epidemiology

Volumn 58, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 777-784

  Lawson, Margaret L ^a   Pham, Ba' ^b,c   Klassen, Terry P ^d   Moher, David ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^b GLAXOSMITHKLINE   (Canada)

^c CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF EASTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Alternative medicine; Complementary therapies; Quality; Reporting; Systematic reviews; Traditional medicine

Indexed keywords

FISH OIL;

ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE; ANALYTIC METHOD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LANGUAGE; MEDICINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; REVIEW; SCORING SYSTEM; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW;

EID: 22044442409     PISSN: 08954356     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jclinepi.2004.08.022     Document Type: Article

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