What is meta-analysis?

Evidence-Based Nursing

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 3-4

  Shorten, Allison ^a   Shorten, Brett ^b  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Informed Health Choices Trust   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HUMAN; LITERATURE; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; META-ANALYSIS AS TOPIC; REVIEW LITERATURE AS TOPIC;

EID: 84874157680     PISSN: 13676539     EISSN: 14689618     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/eb-2012-101118     Document Type: Article

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