Improving Conduct and Reporting of Narrative Synthesis of Quantitative Data (ICONS-Quant): Protocol for a mixed methods study to develop a reporting guideline

BMJ Open

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2018, Pages

  Campbell, Mhairi ^a   Katikireddi, Srinivasa Vittal ^a   Sowden, Amanda ^b   McKenzie, Joanne E ^c   Thomson, Hilary ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^c MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

evidence synthesis; health policy

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHECKLIST; DELPHI STUDY; ETHICS; EXERCISE; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HUMAN; NARRATIVE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PUBLICATION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SYNTHESIS; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW;

EID: 85052905775     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20446055     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2017-020064     Document Type: Article

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