Survey of Cochrane protocols found methods for data extraction from figures not mentioned or unclear

Journal of Clinical Epidemiology

Volumn 68, Issue 10, 2015, Pages 1161-1164

  Vucic, Katarina ^a   Jelicic Kadic, Antonia ^b   Puljak, Livia ^b  

^a Agency for Medicinal Products and Medical Devices   (Croatia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SPLIT   (Croatia)

Author keywords

Computer software; Data extraction; Estimation; Figures; Graphical data; Methodology; Protocol; Systematic reviews; The Cochrane Library

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; COCHRANE LIBRARY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DATA EXTRACTION; HUMAN; MEASUREMENT ERROR; METHODOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLICATION; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW (TOPIC); CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); FACTUAL DATABASE; LITERATURE; STANDARDS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DATABASES, FACTUAL; HUMANS; RESEARCH DESIGN; REVIEW LITERATURE AS TOPIC;

EID: 84941941415     PISSN: 08954356     EISSN: 18785921     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jclinepi.2014.11.016     Document Type: Article

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