Reporting quality of systematic reviews/meta-analyses of acupuncture

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 11, 2014, Pages

  Liu, Yali ^a   Zhang, Rui ^a   Huang, Jiao ^a   Zhao, Xu ^a   Liu, Danlu ^a   Sun, Wanting ^a   Mai, Yuefen ^a   Zhang, Peng ^a,b   Wang, Yajun ^c   Cao, Hua ^d   Yang, Ke Hu ^a  

^a LANZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SHANDONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c GANSU UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE MEDICINE   (China)

^d GANSU PROVINCIAL HOSPITAL   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUPUNCTURE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; DATA BASE; DATA EXTRACTION; HUMAN; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; META ANALYSIS; METHODOLOGY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; QUALITY CONTROL; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; THERAPY EFFECT; CHINESE MEDICINE; FACTUAL DATABASE; PUBLISHING; STANDARDS;

ACUPUNCTURE THERAPY; DATABASES, FACTUAL; HUMANS; MEDICINE, CHINESE TRADITIONAL; PUBLISHING;

EID: 84911474550     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0113172     Document Type: Article

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