Does Social Work Abstracts work?

Research on Social Work Practice

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 487-499

  Holden, Gary ^a   Barker, Kathleen ^b   Covert Vail, Lucinda ^a   Rosenberg, Gary ^c   Cohen, Stephanie A ^d  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^c MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d MOUNT SINAI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Bibliometric; Database; Empirically based practice; Evidence based practice; Literature review; Meta analysis; Systematic review

Indexed keywords

EID: 49349086582     PISSN: 10497315     EISSN: 15527581     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1049731507308986     Document Type: Article

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