Improving Current Practice in Reviews of the Built Environment and Physical Activity

Sports Medicine

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 297-302

  Gebel, Klaus ^a,b   Ding, Ding ^b   Foster, Charlie ^c   Bauman, Adrian E ^b   Sallis, James F ^d  

^a JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; EXERCISE; HUMAN; LITERATURE; METHODOLOGY; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PUBLISHING; STANDARDS;

ENVIRONMENT DESIGN; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; EXERCISE; HUMANS; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PUBLICATION BIAS; RESEARCH DESIGN; REVIEW LITERATURE AS TOPIC;

EID: 84923834759     PISSN: 01121642     EISSN: 11792035     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s40279-014-0273-8     Document Type: Editorial

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