Using built-in functions of Adobe Acrobat Pro DC to help the selection process in systematic reviews of randomised trials

Systematic Reviews

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Nur, Selin ^a   Adams, Clive E ^b   Brailsford, David F ^b  

^a NEU ULM UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Automation; Portable Document Format (PDF); Systematic reviews; Text mining

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION; DATA EXTRACTION; DATA MINING; HUMAN; LETTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLICATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; LITERATURE; PROCEDURES; SOFTWARE;

DATA MINING; HUMANS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; REVIEW LITERATURE AS TOPIC; SOFTWARE;

EID: 84958211635     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20464053     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s13643-016-0207-7     Document Type: Letter

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