Rating the quality of evidence is by necessity a matter of judgment

Journal of Clinical Epidemiology

Volumn 74, Issue , 2016, Pages 237-238

  Murad, Mohammad Hassan ^a   Mustafa, Reem ^b   Morgan, Rebecca ^c   Sultan, Shahnaz ^d   Falck Ytter, Yngve ^e   Dahm, Philipp ^f  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI KANSAS CITY   (United States)

^c MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^e CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; DECISION MAKING; EFFECT SIZE; HUMAN; LETTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLISHING; QUALITY CONTROL; REPRODUCIBILITY; SAMPLE SIZE; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW (TOPIC); LITERATURE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE;

PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; REVIEW LITERATURE AS TOPIC;

EID: 84962118458     PISSN: 08954356     EISSN: 18785921     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jclinepi.2015.11.018     Document Type: Letter

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