Overviews of systematic reviews: Great promise, greater challenge

Systematic Reviews

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2017, Pages

  McKenzie, Joanne E ^a   Brennan, Sue E ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AROMATHERAPY; EDITORIAL; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; LITERATURE; PUBLISHING;

EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; HUMANS; PUBLISHING; RESEARCH DESIGN; REVIEW LITERATURE AS TOPIC;

EID: 85028924420     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20464053     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s13643-017-0582-8     Document Type: Editorial

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