Time to rethink the systematic review catechism? Moving from 'what works' to 'what happens'

Systematic Reviews

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Petticrew, Mark ^a  

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

Author keywords

Complex interventions; Evidence; Systematic reviews

Indexed keywords

BAYES THEOREM; DATA PROCESSING; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; HYPOTHESIS; LITERATURE; METHODOLOGY; NOTE; OUTCOME VARIABLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLICATION; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; WORK; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; HUMAN; STATISTICAL BIAS;

BAYES THEOREM; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); CLINICAL PROTOCOLS; HUMANS; RESEARCH DESIGN; REVIEW LITERATURE AS TOPIC;

EID: 84939212384     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20464053     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s13643-015-0027-1     Document Type: Note

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