The promises of meta-analyses in current RLS research: Is 1 + 1 more than 2?

Sleep Medicine

Volumn 9, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 709-711

  Kohnen, Ralf ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENSERAZIDE; CABERGOLINE; DECARBOXYLASE INHIBITOR; DOPAMINE RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; LEVODOPA; LISURIDE; PERGOLIDE; PLACEBO; PRAMIPEXOLE; ROPINIROLE; ROTIGOTINE; SUMANIROLE;

CLINICAL TRIAL; COCHRANE LIBRARY; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DIZZINESS; DRUG APPROVAL; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG INDICATION; DRUG RESEARCH; DRUG TOLERABILITY; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; EDITORIAL; EFFECT SIZE; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; NAUSEA; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT SELECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RATING SCALE; RESTLESS LEGS SYNDROME; SOMNOLENCE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TREATMENT DURATION; VOMITING;

DOPAMINE AGONISTS; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; HUMANS; META-ANALYSIS AS TOPIC; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RESTLESS LEGS SYNDROME; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 51549110325     PISSN: 13899457     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sleep.2008.07.005     Document Type: Editorial

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