Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-analyses: the PRISMA Statement

Overview

Journal PLoS Med

Specialty General Medicine

Date 2009 Jul 22

PMID 19621072

Citations 21904

Authors

David Moher

Alessandro Liberati

Jennifer Tetzlaff

Douglas G Altman

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