How stakeholder engagement has led us to reconsider definitions of rigour in systematic reviews

Environmental Evidence

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2017, Pages

  Langer, Laurenz ^a   Erasmus, Yvonne ^a   Tannous, Natalie ^a   Stewart, Ruth ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF JOHANNESBURG   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Government; Public good; Rapid evidence assessment; Rigour; Stakeholder engagement

Indexed keywords

EID: 85026896015     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20472382     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s13750-017-0098-7     Document Type: Review

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