If there is only one author or only one database was searched, a study should not be called a systematic review

Journal of Clinical Epidemiology

Volumn 91, Issue , 2017, Pages 4-5

  Puljak, Livia ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SPLIT   (Croatia)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTHOR; CONSENSUS; DATA BASE; DATA EXTRACTION; HUMAN; MEASUREMENT; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW (TOPIC);

DATABASES AS TOPIC; SYSTEMATIC REVIEWS AS TOPIC;

EID: 85030861187     PISSN: 08954356     EISSN: 18785921     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jclinepi.2017.08.002     Document Type: Note

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