Implementing systematic review at the national toxicology program: Status and next steps

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 121, Issue 4, 2013, Pages

  Birnbaum, Linda S ^a   Thayer, Kristina A ^a   Bucher, John R ^a   Wolfe, Mary S ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EDITORIAL; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; HEALTH IMPACT ASSESSMENT; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW (TOPIC); TOXICOLOGY;

ECOTOXICOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH; NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH (U.S.); REVIEW LITERATURE AS TOPIC; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84875888410     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.1306711     Document Type: Editorial

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