Increasing number of databases searched in systematic reviews and meta-analyses between 1994 and 2014

Journal of the Medical Library Association

Volumn 104, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 284-289

  Lam, Michael T ^a   McDiarmid, Mary ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b ONTARIO SHORES CENTRE FOR MENTAL HEALTH SCIENCES   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bibliographic; Database; Databases as topic; Evidence based medicine; MEDLINE; Review

Indexed keywords

COCHRANE LIBRARY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEALTH SCIENCE; HUMAN; MEDLINE; META ANALYSIS; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; RANDOMIZATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SOFTWARE; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; BIBLIOGRAPHIC DATABASE; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; LITERATURE; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); PROCEDURES; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; UTILIZATION;

DATABASES, BIBLIOGRAPHIC; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; HUMANS; META-ANALYSIS AS TOPIC; REVIEW LITERATURE AS TOPIC;

EID: 84994744875     PISSN: 15365050     EISSN: 15589439     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3163/1536-5050.104.4.006     Document Type: Review

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