Handsearching for controlled clinical trials in health care journals published in Germany;Handsuche nach randomisierten kontrollierten studien in Deutschen medizinischen zeitschriften

Deutsche Medizinische Wochenschrift

Volumn 133, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 230-234

  Blümle, Anette ^a   Antes, G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Controlled clinical trial; Handsearching; Health care journals; Language bias; Medline; Publication bias

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COCHRANE LIBRARY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; GERMANY; HEALTH CARE; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDLINE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PUBLISHING; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE; BIBLIOGRAPHIC DATABASE; DOCUMENTATION; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; METHODOLOGY; PUBLICATION; STANDARD; STATISTICS;

ABSTRACTING AND INDEXING AS TOPIC; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; DATABASES, BIBLIOGRAPHIC; GERMANY; HUMANS; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; LANGUAGE; MEDLINE; PERIODICALS AS TOPIC; PUBLICATION BIAS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC;

EID: 39549104536     PISSN: 00120472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-2008-1017501     Document Type: Article

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