Commentary: Adjusting for bias: A user's guide to performing plastic surgery on meta-analyses of observational studies

International Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 777-779

  Ioannidis, John P A ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HUMAN; NOTE; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PLASTIC SURGERY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYSTEMATIC ERROR;

BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; META-ANALYSIS AS TOPIC; MOTOR ACTIVITY; OBESITY; REVIEW LITERATURE AS TOPIC;

EID: 79961181664     PISSN: 03005771     EISSN: 14643685     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ije/dyq265     Document Type: Note

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