Applicable or non-applicable: Investigations of clinical heterogeneity in systematic reviews

BMC Medical Research Methodology

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Chess, Laura E ^a   Gagnier, Joel J ^b,c  

^a HENRY FORD HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Clinical heterogeneity; Cochrane Collaboration; Meta analyses; Systematic reviews

Indexed keywords

BIBLIOGRAPHIC DATABASE; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; LITERATURE; META ANALYSIS; METHODOLOGY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PROCEDURES; STANDARDS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; DATABASES, BIBLIOGRAPHIC; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); RESEARCH DESIGN; REVIEW LITERATURE AS TOPIC;

EID: 84958158270     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712288     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12874-016-0121-7     Document Type: Article

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