A comparison of handsearching versus embase searching of the Archives of Iranian Medicine to identify reports of randomized controlled trials

Archives of Iranian Medicine

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 192-195

  Nasser, Mona ^a   Al Hajeri, Amani ^b  

^a TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b UK Cochrane Center   (Bahrain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COCHRANE LIBRARY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; EMBASE; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; IRAN; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MEDLINE; PATIENT SELECTION; RANDOMIZATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SYSTEMATIC ERROR; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; VALIDITY;

HUMANS; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; IRAN; MEDLINE; PERIODICALS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS;

EID: 33746447776     PISSN: 10292977     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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