A PRISMA assessment of the reporting quality of systematic reviews in orthodontics

Angle Orthodontist

Volumn 83, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 158-163

  Fleming, Padhraig S ^a   Seehra, Jadbinder ^b   Polychronopoulou, Argy ^c   Fedorowicz, Zbys ^d   Pandis, Nikolaos ^e  

^a QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b GUY S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^d Cochrane Collaboration ^*  (Bahrain)

^e Queen Mary University of London ^*

Author keywords

AMSTAR; Orthodontic; PRISMA; Systematic review

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIBLIOMETRICS; LITERATURE; ORTHODONTICS; PUBLICATION; STANDARD;

BIBLIOMETRICS; ORTHODONTICS; PERIODICALS AS TOPIC; REVIEW LITERATURE AS TOPIC;

EID: 84872047795     PISSN: 00033219     EISSN: 19457103     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2319/032612-251.1     Document Type: Article

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