What is Wrong with Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses: If You Want the Right Answer, Ask the Right Question!

Aesthetic Surgery Journal

Volumn 36, Issue 10, 2016, Pages 1198-1201

  Thoma, Achilleas ^a,b,c   Eaves, Felmont F ^d,e  

^a Division of Plastic Surgery   (Canada)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c Aesthetic Surgery Journal   (United States)

^d EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL RESEARCH; HUMAN; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); PLASTIC SURGERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW (TOPIC); THINKING; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; LITERATURE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; METHODOLOGY; PROCEDURES; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; HUMANS; META-ANALYSIS AS TOPIC; RESEARCH DESIGN; REVIEW LITERATURE AS TOPIC;

EID: 84994525135     PISSN: 1090820X     EISSN: 1527330X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/asj/sjw172     Document Type: Article

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