Methodological quality of a systematic review on physical therapy for temporomandibular disorders: Influence of hand search and quality scales

Clinical Oral Investigations

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 295-303

  Craane, Bart ^a   Dijkstra, Pieter Ubele ^b   Stappaerts, Karel ^a   de Laat, Antoon ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^c DEPARTMENT OF IMAGING AND PATHOLOGY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Hand search; Methodological quality; Physical therapy; Randomised clinical trials; Temporomandibular disorders

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIBLIOMETRICS; DATA BASE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HUMAN; MEDLINE; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOTHERAPY; PUBLISHING; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); REPRODUCIBILITY; STANDARD; TEMPOROMANDIBULAR JOINT DISORDER; TIME;

BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); BIBLIOMETRICS; DATABASES AS TOPIC; HUMANS; MEDLINE; PHYSICAL THERAPY MODALITIES; PUBLISHING; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RESEARCH DESIGN; TEMPOROMANDIBULAR JOINT DISORDERS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84855955650     PISSN: 14326981     EISSN: 14363771     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00784-010-0490-y     Document Type: Article

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