No suitable precise or optimized epidemiologic search filters were available for bibliographic databases

Journal of Clinical Epidemiology

Volumn 82, Issue , 2017, Pages 112-118

  Waffenschmidt, Siw ^a   Hermanns, Tatjana ^a   Gerber Grote, Andreas ^b   Mostardt, Sarah ^a  

^a INSTITUTE FOR QUALITY AND EFFICIENCY IN HEALTH CARE IQWIG   (Germany)

^b ZURICH UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Databases, bibliographic; Epidemiology; Evidence based medicine; Information storage and retrieval; MEDLINE; Review literature as topic

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; BIBLIOGRAPHIC DATABASE; COCHRANE LIBRARY; HUMAN; MEDLINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLICATION; WEB OF SCIENCE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; SEARCH ENGINE; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

DATABASES, BIBLIOGRAPHIC; EPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; HUMANS; SEARCH ENGINE;

EID: 84994519366     PISSN: 08954356     EISSN: 18785921     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jclinepi.2016.08.008     Document Type: Article

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