Internet-based search of randomised trials relevant to mental health originating in the Arab world

BMC Psychiatry

Volumn 5, Issue , 2005, Pages

  Takriti, Yahya ^a   El Sayeh, Hany G ^b   Adams, Clive E ^b  

^a Aire Court Community Unit ^*  (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCESS TO INFORMATION; ARAB; ARTICLE; BIBLIOGRAPHIC DATABASE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CLINICAL TRIAL; EMBASE; HUMAN; INTERNET; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MEDLINE; MENTAL HEALTH CARE; ONLINE SYSTEM; PSYCHIATRY; PSYCHOLOGY; PSYCINFO; RANDOMIZATION; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; LETTER; MENTAL HEALTH; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); REPRODUCIBILITY; STATISTICS;

ARAB WORLD; DATABASES, BIBLIOGRAPHIC; HUMANS; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; INTERNET; MEDLINE; MENTAL HEALTH; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 26844582073     PISSN: 1471244X     EISSN: 1471244X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-244X-5-30     Document Type: Article

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