Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses of Traditional Chinese Medicine Must Search Chinese Databases to Reduce Language Bias

Systematic reviews (SRs) that fail to search non-English databases may miss relevant studies and cause selection bias. The bias may be particularly severe in SRs of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) as most randomized controlled trials (RCT) in TCM are published and accessible only in Chinese. In t...

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Autores principales: Wu, Xin-Yin, Tang, Jin-Ling, Mao, Chen, Yuan, Jin-Qiu, Qin, Ying, Chung, Vincent C. H.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2013
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Review Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3816048/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24223063
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/812179

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3816048/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24223063
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/812179

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