The value of a second reviewer for study selection in systematic reviews

Research Synthesis Methods

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2019, Pages 539-545

  Stoll, Carolyn R T ^a   Izadi, Sonya ^a   Fowler, Susan ^b   Green, Paige ^c   Suls, Jerry ^c   Colditz, Graham A ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS   (United States)

^c NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

eligibility screening; review methods; search strategy; study selection

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; BIBLIOGRAPHIC DATABASE; HUMAN; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; METHODOLOGY; OBSERVER VARIATION; PROCEDURES; PUBLICATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); REPRODUCIBILITY;

ALGORITHMS; DATABASES, BIBLIOGRAPHIC; HUMANS; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; OBSERVER VARIATION; PERIODICALS AS TOPIC; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RESEARCH DESIGN; SYSTEMATIC REVIEWS AS TOPIC;

EID: 85077486877     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17592887     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jrsm.1369     Document Type: Article

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