Are systematic reviews and meta-analyses still useful research? We are not sure

Intensive Care Medicine

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 2018, Pages 518-520

  Møller, Morten Hylander ^a   Ioannidis, John P A ^b   Darmon, Michael ^c,d  

^a Rigshospitalet   (Denmark)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c SAINT LOUIS HOSPITAL   (France)

^d UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADVERSE EVENT; ANALYTICAL ERROR; CLINICAL RESEARCH; EDITORIAL; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); METHODOLOGY; RANDOM ERROR; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL BIAS; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW (TOPIC); VALIDITY; MEDICAL RESEARCH;

BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; META-ANALYSIS AS TOPIC; SYSTEMATIC REVIEWS AS TOPIC;

EID: 85045445070     PISSN: 03424642     EISSN: 14321238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00134-017-5039-y     Document Type: Editorial

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