Overviews of Reviews

Cochrane Handbook for Systematic Reviews of Interventions: Cochrane Book Series

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 607-631

  Becker, Lorne A ^a   Oxman, Andrew D ^b  

^a State University of New York Upstate Medical University: College of Medicine   (United States)

^b NORWEGIAN KNOWLEDGE CENTRE FOR THE HEALTH SERVICES   (Norway)

Author keywords

Balancing benefits and outstanding uncertainties; Cochrane Intervention reviews; Cochrane Intervention reviews and Cochrane Overviews of reviews; Cochrane overview of review preparation; Cochrane Overview target audience; Cochrane Overviews and Cochrane Review Groups (CRGs); Cochrane Overviews of reviews; Overall completeness and evidence applicability

Indexed keywords

EID: 84890745311     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470712184.ch22     Document Type: Chapter

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