Planning and Conducting Systematic Reviews

Health Psychology in Practice

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 150-179

  Petticrew, Mark ^a,b   Gilbody, Simon ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Health behaviour; Homosexual; Meta analysis; Psychologists; Randomized controlled trials

Indexed keywords

EID: 84925604356     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470694008.ch8     Document Type: Chapter

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