Librarian co-authors correlated with higher quality reported search strategies in general internal medicine systematic reviews

Journal of Clinical Epidemiology

Volumn 68, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 617-626

  Rethlefsen, Melissa L ^a   Farrell, Ann M ^b   Osterhaus Trzasko, Leah C ^b   Brigham, Tara J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^c MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

Authorship; Librarians; Publishing; Quality control; Standards; Systematic review

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIBLIOGRAPHIC DATABASE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED VOCABULARY; DOCUMENTATION; HUMAN; INTERNAL MEDICINE; INTERRATER RELIABILITY; LIBRARIAN; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MEDICAL LITERATURE; PEER REVIEW; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLISHING; QUALITY CONTROL; REPRODUCIBILITY; STANDARD; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW (TOPIC); WRITING; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INFORMATION SERVICE; JOURNAL IMPACT FACTOR; LITERATURE; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); STANDARDS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; AUTHORSHIP; INFORMATION SERVICES; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; INTERNAL MEDICINE; JOURNAL IMPACT FACTOR; LIBRARIANS; META-ANALYSIS AS TOPIC; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; REVIEW LITERATURE AS TOPIC;

EID: 84928926781     PISSN: 08954356     EISSN: 18785921     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jclinepi.2014.11.025     Document Type: Article

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