Can you see the wood for the trees? Making sense of forest plots in systematic reviews: 1. Presentation of the data from the included studies

Transfusion

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 218-220

  Hyde, C J ^a   Stanworth, S J ^a   Murphy, M F ^a  

^a JOHN RADCLIFFE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTRIBUTABLE RISK; DATA ANALYSIS; FOREST PLOT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; METHODOLOGY; QUANTITATIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW;

HUMANS; REVIEW LITERATURE AS TOPIC; STATISTICS AS TOPIC;

EID: 38349084992     PISSN: 00411132     EISSN: 15372995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1537-2995.2007.01514.x     Document Type: Article

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