Innovation and cross-fertilization in systematic reviews and meta-analysis: The influence of women investigators

Research Synthesis Methods

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 277-283

  Dickersin, Kay ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); FEMALE; HISTORY; LITERATURE; MASS COMMUNICATION; MEDICAL RESEARCH; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); METHODOLOGY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DIFFUSION OF INNOVATION; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; META-ANALYSIS AS TOPIC; RESEARCH DESIGN; REVIEW LITERATURE AS TOPIC; WOMEN, WORKING;

EID: 84949808066     PISSN: 17592879     EISSN: 17592887     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jrsm.1147     Document Type: Note

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