A systematic review of the quality of distal radius systematic reviews: Methodology and reporting assessment

PLoS ONE

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2019, Pages

  Belloti, João Carlos ^a,b   Okamura, Aldo ^a,b   Scheeren, Jordana ^a   Faloppa, Flávio ^a,b   de Moraes, Vinícius Ynoe ^a,b  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b Alvorada Medical Center   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; DATA EXTRACTION; DISTAL RADIUS FRACTURE; FRACTURE TREATMENT; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERNAL VALIDITY; INTERRATER RELIABILITY; METHODOLOGY; QUALITY CONTROL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); REVIEW; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW (TOPIC); JOURNAL IMPACT FACTOR; RADIUS FRACTURE; RESEARCH;

HUMANS; JOURNAL IMPACT FACTOR; RADIUS FRACTURES; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; RESEARCH REPORT;

EID: 85060385431     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0206895     Document Type: Review

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