Titles versus titles and abstracts for initial screening of articles for systematic reviews

Clinical Epidemiology

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 89-95

  Mateen, Farrah J ^a,b   Oh, Jiwon ^a,b   Tergas, Ana I ^a,c   Bhayani, Neil H ^a,d   Kamdar, Biren B ^a,e  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b Department of Neurology ^*  (United States)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d HOWARD UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

^e JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Epidemiology; Meta analysis; Research methods; Systematic review

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; BIBLIOGRAPHIC DATABASE; CITATION ANALYSIS; DATA ANALYSIS; EXPOSURE OF INTEREST; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INVESTIGATIVE PROCEDURES; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; ORGANIZATION; OUTCOME OF INTEREST; PUBLICATION; RECALL BIAS; RESEARCH ETHICS; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW (TOPIC); TITLE; TYPES OF ARTICLE;

EID: 84875180371     PISSN: None     EISSN: 11791349     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2147/CLEP.S43118     Document Type: Article

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