Using data sources beyond PubMed has a modest impact on the results of systematic reviews of therapeutic interventions

Journal of Clinical Epidemiology

Volumn 68, Issue 9, 2015, Pages 1076-1084

  Halladay, Christopher W ^a   Trikalinos, Thomas A ^a   Schmid, Ian T ^a   Schmid, Christopher H ^a   Dahabreh, Issa J ^a  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Databases; EMBASE; Health technology assessment; Literature search; Meta analysis; PubMed; Rapid review; Systematic review

Indexed keywords

CONFERENCE PAPER; DATA ANALYSIS; DATA BASE; EMBASE; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MEDLINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; BIBLIOGRAPHIC DATABASE; BIBLIOMETRICS; HUMAN; LITERATURE; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); METHODOLOGY;

BIBLIOMETRICS; DATABASES, BIBLIOGRAPHIC; HUMANS; META-ANALYSIS AS TOPIC; PUBMED; RESEARCH DESIGN; REVIEW LITERATURE AS TOPIC;

EID: 84938911177     PISSN: 08954356     EISSN: 18785921     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jclinepi.2014.12.017     Document Type: Conference Paper

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