Trials and tribulations of a meta-analyst

Anaesthesia

Volumn 71, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 228-231

  Choi, S W ^a   Lam, D M H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b QUEEN MARY HOSPITAL   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DATA BASE; HAZARD RATIO; HUMAN; MEDICAL RESEARCH; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PUBLICATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); SCIENCE; SCIENTIST; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE; ANESTHESIOLOGY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

ANESTHESIOLOGY; HUMANS; META-ANALYSIS AS TOPIC; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC;

EID: 84954077815     PISSN: 00032409     EISSN: 13652044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/anae.13334     Document Type: Article

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