Systematic review finds overlapping reviews were not mentioned in every other overview

Journal of Clinical Epidemiology

Volumn 67, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 368-375

  Pieper, Dawid ^a   Antoine, Sunya Lee ^a   Mathes, Tim ^a   Neugebauer, Edmund A M ^a   Eikermann, Michaela ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WITTEN HERDECKE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Evidence based medicine; Information science; Meta analysis; Methods; Research design; Systematic review

Indexed keywords

HEALTH CARE; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLICATION; REVIEW; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW (TOPIC); VALIDATION PROCESS;

EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; INFORMATION SCIENCE; META-ANALYSIS; METHODS; RESEARCH DESIGN; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW;

EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; HUMANS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; RESEARCH DESIGN; REVIEW LITERATURE AS TOPIC;

EID: 84896858600     PISSN: 08954356     EISSN: 18785921     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jclinepi.2013.11.007     Document Type: Review

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