Interpreting meta-analyses in systematic reviews

Annals of Internal Medicine

Volumn 150, Issue 4, 2009, Pages

  Perera, Rafael ^a   Heneghan, Carl ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EDITORIAL; LITERATURE; META ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; META-ANALYSIS AS TOPIC; REVIEW LITERATURE AS TOPIC;

EID: 61749102913     PISSN: 00034819     EISSN: 15393704     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Editorial

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