Overviews of reviews often have limited rigor: A systematic review

Journal of Clinical Epidemiology

Volumn 65, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 1267-1273

  Pieper, Dawid ^a   Buechter, Roland ^b   Jerinic, Petra ^a   Eikermann, Michaela ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WITTEN HERDECKE   (Germany)

^b INSTITUTE FOR QUALITY AND EFFICIENCY IN HEALTH CARE IQWIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Evidence based medicine; Information science; Meta analysis; Methodology; Study design; Systematic review

Indexed keywords

DESCRIPTIVE RESEARCH; METHODOLOGY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLICATION; REVIEW; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW (TOPIC);

EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; HUMANS; META-ANALYSIS AS TOPIC; QUALITY CONTROL; REVIEW LITERATURE AS TOPIC;

EID: 84867861572     PISSN: 08954356     EISSN: 18785921     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jclinepi.2012.06.015     Document Type: Review

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