Modernizing the systematic review process to inform comparative effectiveness: Tools and methods

Journal of Comparative Effectiveness Research

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 273-282

  Wallace, Byron C ^a   Dahabreh, Issa J ^a   Schmid, Christopher H ^a   Lau, Joseph ^a   Trikalinos, Thomas A ^a  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

comparative effectiveness research; data mining; health technology assessment; informatics; machine learning; meta analysis; network meta analysis; statistical method

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; AUTOMATION; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; COMPARATIVE EFFECTIVENESS; COMPUTER PROGRAM; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DATA ANALYSIS; DATA EXTRACTION; DATA MINING; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HUMAN; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS DEVELOPMENT; PROCESS OPTIMIZATION; REVIEW; STATISTICAL MODEL; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW (TOPIC);

COMPARATIVE EFFECTIVENESS RESEARCH; DATA COLLECTION; FORECASTING; HUMANS; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; META-ANALYSIS AS TOPIC; PERIODICALS AS TOPIC; REVIEW LITERATURE AS TOPIC; SOFTWARE; WORKLOAD;

EID: 84886944531     PISSN: 20426305     EISSN: 20426313     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2217/cer.13.17     Document Type: Review

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