The art and science of study identification: A comparative analysis of two systematic reviews

BMC Medical Research Methodology

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Rosen, Laura ^a   Suhami, Ruth ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Electronic searching; Evidence based decision making; Meta analysis; Systematic reviews; Tobacco control; Tobacco smoke exposure

Indexed keywords

PASSIVE SMOKING;

CHILD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LITERATURE; MALE; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); PASSIVE SMOKING; PEDIATRICS; PREVENTION AND CONTROL; PUBLICATION; PUBLISHING; QUALITY CONTROL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); STANDARDS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

CHILD; EDITORIAL POLICIES; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; META-ANALYSIS AS TOPIC; PEDIATRICS; PUBLICATIONS; QUALITY CONTROL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; REVIEW LITERATURE AS TOPIC; TOBACCO SMOKE POLLUTION;

EID: 84959089422     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712288     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12874-016-0118-2     Document Type: Article

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