An encouraging assessment of methods to inform priorities for updating systematic reviews

Journal of Clinical Epidemiology

Volumn 62, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 241-251

  Sutton, Alex J ^a   Donegan, Sarah ^b   Takwoingi, Yemisi ^c   Garner, Paul ^d   Gamble, Carol ^b   Donald, Alison ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^d LIVERPOOL SCHOOL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Meta analysis; Methodology; Power; Simulation; Systematic review; Updating

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL RESEARCH; ARTICLE; CLINICAL STUDY; COMPUTER PREDICTION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EVALUATION; FEASIBILITY STUDY; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MEDICAL RESEARCH; METHODOLOGY; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW;

FEASIBILITY STUDIES; HUMANS; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; META-ANALYSIS AS TOPIC; MODELS, STATISTICAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; RESEARCH; REVIEW LITERATURE AS TOPIC; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 58749095854     PISSN: 08954356     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jclinepi.2008.04.005     Document Type: Article

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