The Cochrane Collaboration: Preparing, Maintaining, and Disseminating Systematic Reviews of the Effects of Health Care

JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association

Volumn 274, Issue 24, 1995, Pages 1935-1938

  Bero, Lisa ^a   Rennie, Drummond ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA BASE; HEALTH CARE; HISTORY; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL INFORMATION; ORGANIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; REVIEW;

EID: 84942475903     PISSN: 00987484     EISSN: 15383598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jama.1995.03530240045039     Document Type: Article

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