Rapid Evidence Assessment of the Literature (REAL©): Streamlining the systematic review process and creating utility for evidence-based health care

BMC Research Notes

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Crawford, Cindy ^a   Boyd, Courtney ^a   Jain, Shamini ^a   Khorsan, Raheleh ^a   Jonas, Wayne ^a  

^a SAMUELI INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Evidence based medicine; Meta analysis; Methodology; Rapid Evidence Assessment of the Literature (REAL); Scientific Evaluation and Review of Claims in Health Care (SEaRCH); Systematic review process

Indexed keywords

EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; HUMAN; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; LITERATURE; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); PROCEDURES; PUBLICATION; REPRODUCIBILITY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

EVIDENCE-BASED PRACTICE; HUMANS; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; META-ANALYSIS AS TOPIC; PUBLICATIONS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; REVIEW LITERATURE AS TOPIC;

EID: 84958915567     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17560500     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s13104-015-1604-z     Document Type: Article

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