Optimal literature search for systematic reviews in surgery

Langenbeck's Archives of Surgery

Volumn 403, Issue 1, 2018, Pages 119-129

  Goossen, Käthe ^a   Tenckhoff, Solveig ^a   Probst, Pascal ^a,b   Grummich, Kathrin ^a   Mihaljevic, André L ^a,b   Büchler, Markus W ^b   Diener, Markus K ^a,b  

^a Study Center of the German Surgical Society (SDGC)   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Literature search; Precision; Recall; Surgery; Systematic reviews

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL SURGERY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL RESEARCH; DATA BASE; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; GENERAL SURGERY; NUTRITION; PERIOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STANDARDIZATION; SURGERY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; FACTUAL DATABASE; HUMAN; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; LITERATURE;

DATABASES, FACTUAL; HUMANS; LITERATURE BASED DISCOVERY; REVIEW LITERATURE AS TOPIC;

EID: 85037623623     PISSN: 14352443     EISSN: 14352451     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00423-017-1646-x     Document Type: Article

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