Handsearching versus electronic searching to identify reports of randomized trials

Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews

Volumn , Issue 2, 2007, Pages

  Hopewell, Sally ^a   Clarke, Mike J ^a   Lefebvre, Carol ^a   Scherer, Roberta W ^b  

^a UK COCHRANE CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

*Randomized controlled trials as topic; Abstracting and indexing as topic standards ; Databases as topic standards ; Information storage and retrieval *methods; standards ; Language

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; ELECTRONICS; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PUBLICATION; REVIEW; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW;

EID: 39649086187     PISSN: 1469493X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/14651858.MR000001.pub2     Document Type: Review

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