McMaster Premium LiteratUre Service (PLUS) performed well for identifying new studies for updated Cochrane reviews

Journal of Clinical Epidemiology

Volumn 65, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 62-72.e1

  Hemens, Brian J ^a   Haynes, R Brian ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bibliographic; Databases; Evidence based medicine; Information science; Knowledge translation; MEDLINE; Meta analysis as topic

Indexed keywords

BIBLIOGRAPHIC DATABASE; CLINICAL QUERY; COCHRANE LIBRARY; DATA ANALYSIS; EMBASE; MCMASTER PREMIUM LITERATURE SERVICE; MEDICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MEDLINE; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); PEER REVIEW; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); REVIEW; SCREENING; STANDARD; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW (TOPIC);

EID: 82255175021     PISSN: 08954356     EISSN: 18785921     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jclinepi.2011.02.010     Document Type: Article

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