Evaluating characteristics of PROSPERO records as predictors of eventual publication of non-Cochrane systematic reviews: A meta-epidemiological study protocol

Systematic Reviews

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2018, Pages

  Ruano, Juan ^a   Gómez García, Francisco ^a   Gay Mimbrera, Jesús ^a   Aguilar Luque, Macarena ^a   Fernández Rueda, José Luis ^a   Fernández Chaichio, Jesús ^a   Alcalde Mellado, Patricia ^a,b   Carmona Fernandez, Pedro J ^a   Sanz Cabanillas, Juan Luis ^a   Viguera Guerra, Isabel ^a,b   Franco García, Francisco ^a   Cárdenas Aranzana, Manuel ^a   Romero, José Luis Hernández ^a   Gonzalez Padilla, Marcelino ^a   Isla Tejera, Beatriz ^a   Garcia Nieto, Antonio Velez ^a  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO REINA SOFÍA   (Spain)

^b Universidad de Cordoba   (Spain)

Author keywords

Deep learning; Meta epidemiology; Predictive models; PROSPERO; Systematic review protocols; Web scraping

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL OUTCOME; DECISION MAKING; DISPERSITY; HUMAN; MACHINE LEARNING; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLICATION; QUALITY CONTROL; REGISTRATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; EPIDEMIOLOGY; PUBLISHING; STANDARDS;

EPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; HUMANS; META-ANALYSIS AS TOPIC; PERIODICALS AS TOPIC; PUBLISHING; SYSTEMATIC REVIEWS AS TOPIC;

EID: 85043460770     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20464053     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s13643-018-0709-6     Document Type: Article

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