What is a systematic review?

European Journal of Oral Implantology

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 235-238

  Worthington, Helen V ^a,b   Esposito, Marco ^b,c,d   Nieri, Michele ^e   Glenny, Anne Marie ^b  

^a Evidence Based Care   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^c Oral Medicine and Surgery   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^e UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Education; Evidence based; Outcome measures; Randomised controlled clinical trial; Statistical analysis; Systematic review

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EVIDENCE BASED DENTISTRY; HUMAN; LITERATURE; META ANALYSIS; METHODOLOGY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; STANDARD; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; EVIDENCE-BASED DENTISTRY; HUMANS; META-ANALYSIS AS TOPIC; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; RESEARCH DESIGN; REVIEW LITERATURE AS TOPIC; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 77953278858     PISSN: 17562406     EISSN: 17562414     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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