Beyond publication bias

Journal of Clinical Epidemiology

Volumn 64, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 459-462

  Bax, Leon ^a,b,c,d   Moons, Karel G ^b  

^a PHARSIGHT CORPORATION   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^c KITASATO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^d NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Bias; Evidence dissemination; Evidence based medicine; Meta analysis; Publication bias; Systematic reviews

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; EFFECT SIZE; EMPIRICISM; INCLUSION BIAS; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); NOMENCLATURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLICATION; PUBLISHING; REFERENCE DATABASE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REPORTING BIAS; REVIEW; SYSTEMATIC ERROR; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW (TOPIC);

EID: 79953290685     PISSN: 08954356     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jclinepi.2010.09.003     Document Type: Note

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