Pure or tarnished: Are systematic reviews blind or biased?

Photomedicine and Laser Surgery

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 451-452

  Lanzafame, Raymond J ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

CLINICAL RESEARCH; CLINICAL TRIAL; COCHRANE LIBRARY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; EDITORIAL; LASER SURGERY; MEDICAL LITERATURE; PUBLICATION; QUALITY CONTROL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW;

BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); BIBLIOMETRICS; HUMANS; LASER THERAPY, LOW-LEVEL; OSTEOARTHRITIS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS; REVIEW LITERATURE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 27744496464     PISSN: 15495418     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/pho.2005.23.451     Document Type: Editorial

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