Publication Bias and Nonreporting Found in Majority of Systematic Reviews and Meta-analyses in Anesthesiology Journals

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 123, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 1018-1025

  Hedin, Riley J ^a   Umberham, Blake A ^a   Detweiler, Byron N ^a   Kollmorgen, Lauren ^a   Vassar, Matt ^a  

^a OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY CENTER FOR HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANESTHESIA; ANESTHESIOLOGY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL OUTCOME; CODING; HUMAN; MEDLINE; META ANALYSIS; PEER REVIEW; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLISHING; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; LITERATURE; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); PUBLICATION; STANDARDS; TRENDS;

ANESTHESIOLOGY; HUMANS; META-ANALYSIS AS TOPIC; PERIODICALS AS TOPIC; PUBLICATION BIAS; REVIEW LITERATURE AS TOPIC;

EID: 84983059472     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: 15267598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1213/ANE.0000000000001452     Document Type: Article

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