Commentary: Meta-epidemiology, meta-metaepidemiology or network meta-epidemiology?

International Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 1131-1133

  Trinquart, Ludovic ^a,b,c   Dechartres, Agnes ^a,d,e   Ravaud, Philippe ^a,b,c,d,e  

^a INSERM   (France)

^b Centre Cochrane Français   (France)

^c Mailman School of Public Health   (United States)

^d HÔTEL DIEU   (France)

^e UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HUMAN; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); RISK FACTOR; SCIENTIST; STATISTICAL MODEL;

BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); EPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES;

EID: 84884755873     PISSN: 03005771     EISSN: 14643685     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ije/dyt137     Document Type: Note

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