Systematic review of literature with different types of designs;Revisión sistemática de la literatura con diferentes tipos de diseños

International Journal of Morphology

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1179-1186

  Manterola, Carlos ^a   Vial, Manuel ^a   Pineda, Viviana ^a   Sanhueza, Antonio ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE LA FRONTERA   (Chile)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DE LA FRONTERA   (Chile)

Author keywords

Epidemiologic studies; Evaluation studies; Evidence based medicine; Intervention studies; Meta analysis; Review literature

Indexed keywords

EID: 77953569325     PISSN: 07179367     EISSN: 07179502     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4067/S0717-95022009000400035     Document Type: Article

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