Implications of applying methodological shortcuts to expedite systematic reviews: three case studies using systematic reviews from agri-food public health

Research Synthesis Methods

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 433-446

  Pham, Mai T ^a,b   Waddell, Lisa ^b   Rajić, Andrijana ^a   Sargeant, Jan M ^a   Papadopoulos, Andrew ^a   McEwen, Scott A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^b PUBLIC HEALTH AGENCY OF CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

knowledge synthesis; meta analysis; methodology; rapid review; shortcut; systematic review

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; BIBLIOGRAPHIC DATABASE; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; FOOD SAFETY; HUMAN; LITERATURE; METHODOLOGY; ORGANIC FOOD; PUBLIC HEALTH; REPRODUCIBILITY; STATISTICAL BIAS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS;

AGRICULTURE; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); DATABASES, BIBLIOGRAPHIC; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; FOOD SAFETY; FOOD, ORGANIC; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PUBLIC HEALTH; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RESEARCH DESIGN; REVIEW LITERATURE AS TOPIC; STATISTICS AS TOPIC;

EID: 84992075915     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17592887     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jrsm.1215     Document Type: Article

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