Critical Assessment of Search Strategies in Systematic Reviews in Endodontics

Journal of Endodontics

Volumn 42, Issue 6, 2016, Pages 854-860

  Yaylali, Ibrahim Ethem ^a   Alaçam, Tayfun ^b  

^a Military Hospital   (Turkey)

^b GAZI UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Endodontics; search strategies; systematic review

Indexed keywords

CHECKLIST; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; SCREENING; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; CLASSIFICATION; DATA BASE; ENDODONTICS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; PEER REVIEW; PROCEDURES; PUBLISHING; SEARCH ENGINE; STANDARDS;

CHECKLIST; CLASSIFICATION; DATABASES AS TOPIC; ENDODONTICS; HUMANS; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; LANGUAGE; PEER REVIEW, RESEARCH; PUBLISHING; SEARCH ENGINE;

EID: 84963537622     PISSN: 00992399     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.joen.2016.02.018     Document Type: Review

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