Reporting of effect direction and size in abstracts of systematic reviews

JAMA

Volumn 306, Issue 18, 2011, Pages 1981-1982

  Beller, Elaine M ^a   Glasziou, Paul P ^a   Hopewell, Sally ^b   Altman, Douglas G ^b  

^a BOND UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSTRACT REPORT; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; DATA ANALYSIS; DATA EXTRACTION; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; HUMAN; INTERVENTION STUDY; LETTER; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLICATION; QUALITY CONTROL; SAMPLE SIZE; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW;

EID: 80755169812     PISSN: 00987484     EISSN: 15383598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jama.2011.1620     Document Type: Letter

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