Evaluation of the quality of prognosis studies in systematic reviews

Annals of Internal Medicine

Volumn 144, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 427-437

  Hayden, Jill A ^a,b   Côté, Pierre ^a,b   Bombardier, Claire ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b INSTITUTE FOR WORK AND HEALTH   (Canada)

^c TORONTO GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Canada)

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ARTICLE; AUTHOR; CLINICAL RESEARCH; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DATA EXTRACTION; DATA SYNTHESIS; EVALUATION RESEARCH; LANGUAGE; MEDLINE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PUBLICATION; QUALITY CONTROL; EPIDEMIOLOGY; EVALUATION; LITERATURE; METHODOLOGY; STANDARD;

BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); PROGNOSIS; RESEARCH DESIGN; REVIEW LITERATURE;

EID: 33645642434     PISSN: 00034819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7326/0003-4819-144-6-200603210-00010     Document Type: Article

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