A systematic review protocol for reporting deficiencies within surgical case series

BMJ Open

Volumn 5, Issue 10, 2015, Pages

  Agha, Riaz ^a   Fowler, Alexander J ^b   Lee, Seon Young ^c   Gundogan, Buket ^d   Whitehurst, Katharine ^d   Sagoo, Hakiran ^e   Jeong, Kyung Jin Lee ^f   Altman, Douglas G ^g   Orgill, Dennis P ^h  

^a BALLIOL COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

^b QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^d ROYAL FREE AND UNIVERSITY COLLEGE MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

^e KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^f NORFOLK AND NORWICH UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^g UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^h HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CASE STUDY; CONSENSUS DEVELOPMENT; EMBASE; ETHICS; HUMAN; MEDLINE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; SCIENTIST; SCISEARCH; STATISTICS; SURGERY; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; GENERAL SURGERY; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PROCEDURES; REGISTER; STANDARDS;

BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; GENERAL SURGERY; HUMANS; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; REGISTRIES;

EID: 84948986192     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20446055     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2015-008007     Document Type: Article

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