Clinical heterogeneity was a common problem in Cochrane reviews of physiotherapy and occupational therapy

Journal of Clinical Epidemiology

Volumn 59, Issue 9, 2006, Pages

  van den Ende, Cornelia H M ^a   Steultjens, Esther M J ^b   Bouter, Lex M ^c   Dekker, Joost ^c  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

^c VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Evidence based medicine; Heterogeneity; Meta analysis; Occupational therapy; Physiotherapy; Review

Indexed keywords

COCHRANE LIBRARY; DATA ANALYSIS; DATA EXTRACTION; DATA SYNTHESIS; INFORMATION PROCESSING; OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PHYSIOTHERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY; REVIEW;

EID: 33746914706     PISSN: 08954356     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jclinepi.2005.12.014     Document Type: Review

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