Surveying the traumatic stress literature: The effective use of bibliographic databases in preparing reviews and meta-analyses

Journal of Traumatic Stress

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 819-822

  Lerner, Fred ^a   Hamblen, Jessica L ^a  

^a DARTMOUTH MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIBLIOGRAPHIC DATABASE; HUMAN; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INJURY; LITERATURE; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); METHODOLOGY; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT;

DATABASES, BIBLIOGRAPHIC; HUMANS; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; META-ANALYSIS AS TOPIC; REVIEW LITERATURE AS TOPIC; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 78650243095     PISSN: 08949867     EISSN: 15736598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jts.20580     Document Type: Article

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