Reporting and methodological quality of systematic reviews in the orthopaedic literature

Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery

Volumn 95, Issue 11, 2013, Pages

  Gagnier, Joel J ^a   Kellam, Patrick J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; FUNDING; HUMAN; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MEDICAL LITERATURE; METHODOLOGY; ORTHOPEDIC SURGERY; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLISHING; QUALITY CONTROL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REVIEW; STRATIFIED SAMPLE; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; ARTICLE; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; LITERATURE; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); ORTHOPEDICS; STANDARD;

EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; HUMANS; META-ANALYSIS AS TOPIC; ORTHOPEDICS; PUBLISHING; QUALITY CONTROL; RESEARCH DESIGN; REVIEW LITERATURE AS TOPIC;

EID: 84883537098     PISSN: 00219355     EISSN: 15351386     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2106/JBJS.L.00597     Document Type: Review

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