The use of Bayesian networks to assess the quality of evidence from research synthesis: 1

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2015, Pages

  Stewart, Gavin B ^a,d   Higgins, Julian P T ^a,b   Schünemann, Holger ^c   Meader, Nick ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^c MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; BAYES THEOREM; CHECKLIST; DECISION MAKING; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; PROBABILITY; PUBLISHING; QUALITY CONTROL; RELIABILITY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; VALIDITY; BIOMEDICAL TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT; EPIDEMIOLOGY; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); PROCEDURES; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); STATISTICAL MODEL;

BAYES THEOREM; CHECKLIST; EPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; EVIDENCE-BASED PRACTICE; HUMANS; META-ANALYSIS AS TOPIC; MODELS, STATISTICAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; RESEARCH DESIGN; TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT, BIOMEDICAL;

EID: 84926629957     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0114497     Document Type: Article

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