Cochrane reviews in pregnancy: The role of perinatal randomized trials and systematic reviews in establishing evidence

Seminars in Fetal and Neonatal Medicine

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 97-103

  Dodd, Jodie M ^a   Crowther, Caroline A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Clinical practice implications; Evidence based medicine; Randomized trials; Research implications; Systematic reviews

Indexed keywords

ALPHA TOCOPHEROL; ANTIOXIDANT; ASCORBIC ACID; CORTICOSTEROID; IRON; ISOSORBIDE; LOW MOLECULAR WEIGHT HEPARIN; MISOPROSTOL; NIFEDIPINE; NITRIC OXIDE DONOR; OXYTOCIN; PROGESTERONE; PROSTAGLANDIN E2;

AMNIOTOMY; ANEMIA; ANUS SPHINCTER DISORDER; BACTERIURIA; BREECH PRESENTATION; CESAREAN SECTION; CHILDBIRTH; CLINICAL TRIAL; COCHRANE LIBRARY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; DATA ANALYSIS; DECISION MAKING; EPISIOTOMY; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; FECES INCONTINENCE; FETOSCOPY; FETUS DISEASE; HEALTH CARE; HUMAN; IRON THERAPY; LABOR INDUCTION; LASER COAGULATION; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; MATERNAL CARE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MOXIBUSTION; MULTIPLE PREGNANCY; NEONATAL RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME; OBSTETRICS; PERINATAL CARE; PERIODONTITIS; POSTPARTUM HEMORRHAGE; PREECLAMPSIA; PREGNANCY; PREMATURE LABOR; PRENATAL CARE; QUALITY CONTROL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RETAINED PLACENTA; REVIEW; SMOKING CESSATION; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; THROMBOPHILIA; TOCOLYSIS; TWIN PREGNANCY; TWIN TWIN TRANSFUSION SYNDROME; UNSPECIFIED SIDE EFFECT; VACUUM EXTRACTION; VAGINITIS;

EID: 33644559079     PISSN: 1744165X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.siny.2005.11.005     Document Type: Article

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