Meta-analysis

ORL

Volumn 66, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 186-195

  Rosenfeld, Richard M ^a,b  

^a LONG ISLAND COLLEGE HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b Department of Otolaryngology ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Evidence based medicine; Heterogeneity; Meta analysis; Systematic review

Indexed keywords

CHRONIC OTITIS MEDIA; CLINICAL RESEARCH; CLINICAL TRIAL; DATA ANALYSIS; HUMAN; META ANALYSIS; METHODOLOGY; OTITIS MEDIA; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLICATION; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REVIEW; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW;

HUMANS; META-ANALYSIS; OTOLARYNGOLOGY;

EID: 5644291822     PISSN: 03011569     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000079876     Document Type: Review

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