How to write a systematic review

Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research

Volumn 455, Issue , 2007, Pages 23-29

  Wright, Rick W ^a,d   Brand, Richard A ^b   Dunn, Warren ^c   Spindler, Kurt P ^c  

^a BARNES JEWISH HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b CLINICAL ORTHOPAEDICS AND RELATED RESEARCH   (United States)

^c VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONFERENCE PAPER; DATA ANALYSIS; DATA EXTRACTION; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; METHODOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; ARTICLE; BIBLIOGRAPHIC DATABASE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; HUMAN; LITERATURE; PEER REVIEW; PUBLISHING; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; WRITING;

DATABASES, BIBLIOGRAPHIC; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; HUMANS; PEER REVIEW, RESEARCH; PUBLICATION BIAS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS; REVIEW LITERATURE; WRITING;

EID: 33846826565     PISSN: 0009921X     EISSN: 15281132     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/BLO.0b013e31802c9098     Document Type: Conference Paper

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