Conducting Systematic Reviews of Intervention Questions II: Relevance Screening, Data Extraction, Assessing Risk of Bias, Presenting the Results and Interpreting the Findings

Zoonoses and Public Health

Volumn 61, Issue SUPPL1, 2014, Pages 39-51

  Sargeant, J M ^a,b   O'Connor, A M ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^c IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Data extraction; Intervention; Quality assessment; Relevance screening; Systematic review; Veterinary

Indexed keywords

ESCHERICHIA COLI VACCINE; PLACEBO;

AGRICULTURE; CATTLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONSENSUS; DATA EXTRACTION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EXTERNAL VALIDITY; FECES MICROFLORA; FOLLOW UP; FOOD SAFETY; INFORMATION SYSTEM; INTERNAL VALIDITY; INTERVENTION STUDY; NONHUMAN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POPULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLISHING; QUALITY CONTROL; RANDOMIZATION; REPRODUCIBILITY; RESEARCH; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE; SCREENING; SELECTION BIAS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW (TOPIC); VACCINATION; VETERINARY MEDICINE; ANIMAL; BIBLIOGRAPHIC DATABASE; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; LITERATURE; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); METHODOLOGY;

AGRICULTURE; ANIMALS; DATA COLLECTION; DATABASES, BIBLIOGRAPHIC; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; META-ANALYSIS AS TOPIC; RESEARCH DESIGN; REVIEW LITERATURE AS TOPIC; SELECTION BIAS; VETERINARY MEDICINE;

EID: 84901989846     PISSN: 18631959     EISSN: 18632378     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/zph.12124     Document Type: Review

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