Empty reviews: A description and consideration of cochrane systematic reviews with no included studies

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2012, Pages

  Yaffe, Joanne ^a   Montgomery, Paul ^b   Hopewell, Sally ^c   Shepard, Lindsay Dianne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COCHRANE LIBRARY; DESCRIPTIVE RESEARCH; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; INFORMATION PROCESSING; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PUBLICATION; PUBLISHING; SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE; FACTUAL DATABASE; LITERATURE; MEDICINE; STATISTICS;

DATABASES, FACTUAL; MEDICINE; REVIEW LITERATURE AS TOPIC;

EID: 84860521295     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0036626     Document Type: Article

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