Simple search techniques in PubMed are potentially suitable for evaluating the completeness of systematic reviews

Journal of Clinical Epidemiology

Volumn 66, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 660-665

  Waffenschmidt, Siw ^a   Janzen, Tatjana ^a   Hausner, Elke ^a   Kaiser, Thomas ^a  

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

Author keywords

Drugs; Feasibility studies; Information Storage and Retrieval ; Meta analysis as topic; PubMed; Randomized controlled trials as topic; standards

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; CALCULATION; CITATION ANALYSIS; DEPRESSION; INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; MEDLINE; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRODUCTIVITY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); READING; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW (TOPIC);

EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; HUMANS; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; PHARMACEUTICAL PREPARATIONS; PUBMED; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; REFERENCE STANDARDS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REVIEW LITERATURE AS TOPIC; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84876925926     PISSN: 08954356     EISSN: 18785921     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jclinepi.2012.11.011     Document Type: Article

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