The quality of research synthesis in surgery: The case of laparoscopic surgery for colorectal cancer

Systematic Reviews

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Martel, Guillaume ^a   Duhaime, Suleena ^a   Barkun, Jeffrey S ^b   Boushey, Robin P ^a   Ramsay, Craig R ^c   Fergusson, Dean A ^a  

^a OTTAWA HOSPITAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY HEALTH CENTRE   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

colorectal cancer; laparoscopy; surgery; systematic review; umbrella review

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; COLORECTAL CANCER; FOLLOW UP; HEMICOLECTOMY; HUMAN; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATHOLOGY; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PUBLICATION; QUALITY OF LIFE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); RECTUM CANCER; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW (TOPIC); COLORECTAL TUMOR; LAPAROSCOPY; LITERATURE; SURVIVAL RATE;

COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; LAPAROSCOPY; REVIEW LITERATURE AS TOPIC; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 84859986349     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20464053     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/2046-4053-1-14     Document Type: Article

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