Advancing the field of health systems research synthesis

Systematic Reviews

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Langlois, Etienne V ^a   Ranson, Michael K ^b   Bärnighausen, Till ^c,d   Bosch Capblanch, Xavier ^e,f   Daniels, Karen ^g   El Jardali, Fadi ^h   Ghaffar, Abdul ^a   Grimshaw, Jeremy ⁱ   Haines, Andy ^j   Lavis, John N ^c,k   Lewin, Simon ^g,l   Meng, Qingyue ^m   Oliver, Sandy ⁿ   Pantoja, Tomás ^o   Straus, Sharon ^p   Shemilt, Ian ^q   Tovey, David ^r   Tugwell, Peter ^s   Waddington, Hugh ^t   Wilson, Mark ^r   Yuan, Beibei ^m   Røttingen, John Arne ^c,u,v   more..

^a WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

^b WORLD BANK GROUP   (United States)

^c HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

^e SWISS TROPICAL AND PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^f UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^g SOUTH AFRICAN MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL   (South Africa)

^h AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF BEIRUT   (Lebanon)

ⁱ OTTAWA HOSPITAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^j LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^k MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^l NORWEGIAN KNOWLEDGE CENTRE FOR THE HEALTH SERVICES   (Norway)

^m PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

ⁿ UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^o PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE CHILE   (Chile)

^p ST MICHAEL'S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^q UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^r Cochrane ^*  (United Kingdom)

^s UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^t London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine   (United Kingdom)

^u UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^v NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Norway)

more..

Author keywords

Decision making; Evidence synthesis; Health policy; Health systems research; Systematic reviews

Indexed keywords

ADVISORY COMMITTEE; BIBLIOGRAPHIC DATABASE; DECISION MAKING; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP; QUASI EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; SCIENTIST; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW (TOPIC); PROCEDURES;

DECISION MAKING; HEALTH POLICY; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HUMANS;

EID: 84936873909     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20464053     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s13643-015-0080-9     Document Type: Note

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