Assessing the validity of abbreviated literature searches for rapid reviews: Protocol of a non-inferiority and meta-epidemiologic study

Systematic Reviews

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Nussbaumer Streit, Barbara ^a   Klerings, Irma ^a   Wagner, Gernot ^a   Titscher, Viktoria ^a   Gartlehner, Gerald ^a,b  

^a DANUBE UNIVERSITY KREMS   (Austria)

^b RTI INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Abbreviated search; Impact on conclusions; Meta epidemiologic study; Non inferiority margin; Rapid reviews; Streamlined search

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; DECISION MAKING; DISEASE CONTROL; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HUMAN; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH; RISK FACTOR; SAMPLE SIZE; SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE; SOFTWARE; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; LITERATURE; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); SELECTION BIAS; TIME FACTOR; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

DECISION MAKING; EPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; HUMANS; META-ANALYSIS AS TOPIC; REVIEW LITERATURE AS TOPIC; SELECTION BIAS; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84997287986     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20464053     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s13643-016-0380-8     Document Type: Article

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