Methods of Evidence-Based Anatomy: A guide to conducting systematic reviews and meta-analysis of anatomical studies

Annals of Anatomy

Volumn 205, Issue , 2016, Pages 16-21

  Henry, Brandon Michael ^a,b   Tomaszewski, Krzysztof A ^a,b   Walocha, Jerzy A ^a,b  

^a International Evidence Based Anatomy Working Group   (Poland)

^b JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Poland)

Author keywords

Evidence based anatomy; Meta analysis; Methodology; Systematic review

Indexed keywords

ANATOMY; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; META ANALYSIS; PREVALENCE; QUALITY CONTROL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; ALGORITHM; ANATOMICAL VARIATION; ANIMAL; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; LITERATURE; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PROCEDURES; STANDARDS;

ALGORITHMS; ANATOMIC VARIATION; ANATOMY; ANIMALS; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; HUMANS; META-ANALYSIS AS TOPIC; REVIEW LITERATURE AS TOPIC;

EID: 84959356945     PISSN: 09409602     EISSN: 16180402     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.aanat.2015.12.002     Document Type: Article

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