Hand searching for controlled clinical trials in German surgical journals: A contribution to evidence-based surgery;Handsuche nach Kontrollierten Klinischen Studien in Deutschsprachigen Chirurgischen Zeitschriften: Ein Beitrag zur Evidenzbasierten Chirurgie

Chirurg

Volumn 78, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 1052-1058

  Blumle A ^a   Antes, G ^a   Diener, M K ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Controlled clinical trials; Hand searching; Surgery

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIBLIOGRAPHIC DATABASE; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; DOCUMENTATION; EPIDEMIOLOGY; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; GERMANY; HUMAN; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MEDLINE; PUBLICATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; STANDARD; STATISTICS; SURGERY; UNITED STATES;

ABSTRACTING AND INDEXING AS TOPIC; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; DATABASES, BIBLIOGRAPHIC; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; GERMANY; HUMANS; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; MEDLINE; PERIODICALS AS TOPIC; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; SURGERY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 36148961930     PISSN: 00094722     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00104-007-1372-y     Document Type: Article

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