Need for quality improvement in renal systematic reviews

Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1102-1114

  Mrkobrada, Marko ^a   Thiessen Philbrook, Heather ^a   Haynes, R Brian ^b   Iansavichus, Arthur V ^a   Rehman, Faisal ^a   Garg, Amit X ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c LONDON HEALTH SCIENCES CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; HUMAN; LITERATURE; NEPHROLOGY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PUBLICATION; PUBLISHING; QUALITY CONTROL; REVIEW; STANDARD;

BENCHMARKING; CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; EDITORIAL POLICIES; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; GUIDELINE ADHERENCE; GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; HUMANS; NEPHROLOGY; PERIODICALS AS TOPIC; QUALITY CONTROL; REVIEW LITERATURE AS TOPIC;

EID: 49149102890     PISSN: 15559041     EISSN: 1555905X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2215/CJN.04401007     Document Type: Review

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