A proposed framework for developing quality assessment tools

Systematic Reviews

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2017, Pages

  Whiting, Penny ^a,b   Wolff, Robert ^c   Mallett, Susan ^d,e   Simera, Iveta ^f   Savović, Jelena ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS BRISTOL NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^c KLEIJNEN SYSTEMATIC REVIEWS LTD   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^e University of Birmingham   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Quality; Risk of bias; Systematic reviews

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT TOOL; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; HUMAN; INTERNET; MANAGEMENT; ORGANIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROFESSIONAL STANDARD; PUBLICATION; QUALITY CONTROL; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TEAM BUILDING; LITERATURE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; METHODOLOGY; QUESTIONNAIRE; STANDARDS; STATISTICAL BIAS;

BIAS; BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; HUMANS; QUALITY CONTROL; RESEARCH DESIGN; REVIEW LITERATURE AS TOPIC; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 85031676861     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20464053     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s13643-017-0604-6     Document Type: Article

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