Low reporting quality of the meta-analyses in diagnostic pathology

Archives of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

Volumn 141, Issue 3, 2017, Pages 423-430

  Liu, Xulei ^a   Kinzler, Michael ^b,c   Yuan, Jiangfan ^d   He, Guozhong ^d,e,f   Zhang, Lanjing ^c,g,h,i  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Department of Psychology   (New Zealand)

^c University Medical Centre Princeton   (United States)

^d Jishuitan Orthopaedic College of Tsinghua University   (China)

^e KUNMING MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^f Stanford University   (United States)

^g RUTGERS CANCER INSTITUTE OF NEW JERSEY   (United States)

^h RUTGERS ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

ⁱ RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHECKLIST; EDUCATION; HUMAN; MEDLINE; META ANALYSIS; PATHOLOGY; PUBLICATION; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC);

HUMANS; META-ANALYSIS AS TOPIC; PATHOLOGY;

EID: 85014441093     PISSN: 00039985     EISSN: 15432165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5858/arpa.2016-0144-OA     Document Type: Article

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