Up-to-dateness of reviews is often neglected in overviews: A systematic review

Journal of Clinical Epidemiology

Volumn 67, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 1302-1308

  Pieper, Dawid ^a   Antoine, Sunya Lee ^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

ALGORITHM; AUTHOR; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; GRADING SYSTEM; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MEDICAL DEVICE; METHODOLOGY; OBESITY; OUT OF DATE REVIEW; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLICATION; PUBLISHING; QUALITY CONTROL; QUESTIONNAIRE; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SCORING SYSTEM; STUDY DESIGN; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW (TOPIC); LITERATURE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; STANDARDS;

BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; HUMANS; PUBLISHING; REVIEW LITERATURE AS TOPIC;

EID: 84922481805     PISSN: 08954356     EISSN: 18785921     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jclinepi.2014.08.008     Document Type: Review

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