Should we search Chinese biomedical databases when performing systematic reviews?

Systematic Reviews

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Cohen, Jérémie F ^a,b,c   Korevaar, Daniël A ^a   Wang, Junfeng ^a   Spijker, René ^d   Bossuyt, Patrick M ^a  

^a ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b PARIS DESCARTES UNIVERSITY   (France)

^c HÔPITAL NECKER ENFANTS MALADES   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Bias; China; Databases; Information retrieval; Language of publication; Literature searching; Systematic reviews

Indexed keywords

CYCLIC CITRULLINATED PEPTIDE ANTIBODY; CYCLOPEPTIDE;

ACUPUNCTURE; ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; CHINESE BIOMEDICAL DATABASE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW (TOPIC); ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; BIBLIOGRAPHIC DATABASE; CHINA; FACTUAL DATABASE; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; LITERATURE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MEDLINE;

ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; CHINA; DATABASES, BIBLIOGRAPHIC; DATABASES, FACTUAL; HUMANS; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; MEDLINE; PEPTIDES, CYCLIC; REVIEW LITERATURE AS TOPIC;

EID: 84939124225     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20464053     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s13643-015-0017-3     Document Type: Article

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