Methodological and Reporting Quality of Systematic Reviews Published in the Highest Ranking Journals in the Field of Pain

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 125, Issue 4, 2017, Pages 1348-1354

  Riado Minguez, Daniel ^a   Kowalski, Martin ^b   Vallve Odena, Marta ^c   Longin Pontzen, Daniel ^d   Jelicic Kadic, Antonia ^b,e   Jeric, Milka ^f   Dosenovic, Svjetlana ^e   Jakus, Dora ^b   Vrdoljak, Marija ^b   Poklepovic Pericic, Tina ^b   Sapunar, Damir ^b   Puljak, Livia ^b,g  

^a UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SPLIT   (Croatia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITY MEDICINE GREIFSWALD   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL SPLIT   (Croatia)

^f GENERAL HOSPITAL ZADAR   (Croatia)

^g Agency for Quality and Accreditation in Health   (Croatia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HUMAN; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MEDICAL LITERATURE; PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTOCOL COMPLIANCE; PUBLICATION; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; ANALGESIA; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; JOURNAL IMPACT FACTOR; LITERATURE; META ANALYSIS; RESEARCH; STANDARDS;

CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; HUMANS; JOURNAL IMPACT FACTOR; PAIN; PAIN MANAGEMENT; RESEARCH REPORT; REVIEW LITERATURE AS TOPIC;

EID: 85021816814     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: 15267598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1213/ANE.0000000000002227     Document Type: Article

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