Epidemiology and Reporting Characteristics of Systematic Reviews of Biomedical Research: A Cross-Sectional Study
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Summary
Investigation of the epidemiological and reporting characteristics of a more recent cross-section of SRs suggests that more than 8,000 SRs are being indexed in MEDLINE annually, corresponding to a 3-fold increase over the last decade.
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- article
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- 2016-05-01
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- 597
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- Open access
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Keywords
Medicine, MEDLINE, Systematic review, Epidemiology, Cross-sectional study
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