Assessing “Best Evidence”: Issues in Grading the Quality of Studies for Systematic Reviews
- 1 September 1999
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Elsevier BV in The Joint Commission Journal on Quality Improvement
- Vol. 25 (9), 470-479
- https://doi.org/10.1016/s1070-3241(16)30461-8
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