Are men difficult to find? Identifying male-specific studies in MEDLINE and Embase

Systematic Reviews

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Stewart, Fiona ^a   Fraser, Cynthia ^a   Robertson, Clare ^a   Avenell, Alison ^a   Archibald, Daryll ^b   Douglas, Flora ^c   Hoddinott, Pat ^d   van Teijlingen, Edwin ^e   Boyers, Dwayne ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^c ROWETT RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF STIRLING   (United Kingdom)

^e BOURNEMOUTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bibliographic databases; Gender; Information retrieval; Search filters; Systematic reviews

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; BIBLIOGRAPHIC DATABASE; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; EMBASE; GENDER IDENTITY; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERVENTION STUDY; MEDLINE; MEN'S HEALTH; METHODOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH; QUALITY CONTROL PROCEDURES; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; VALIDATION STUDY; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; LITERATURE; MALE; PROCEDURES;

DATABASES, BIBLIOGRAPHIC; HUMANS; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; MALE; MEDLINE; MEN; REVIEW LITERATURE AS TOPIC;

EID: 84928035222     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20464053     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/2046-4053-3-78     Document Type: Article

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