Most published and unpublished dissertations should be excluded from meta-analyses: comment on Moyer et al .
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Most published and unpublished dissertations should be excluded from meta-analyses: comment on Moyer et al.
Moyer et al. [1] systematically collected published and unpublished dissertations evaluating psychosocial interventions for cancer patients and examined the methodological quality of these studies. They concluded that because published and unpublished dissertations differ little in methodological adequacy, the inclusion of unpublished dissertations in meta-analyses is desirable in order to avoi...
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عنوان ژورنال: Psycho-Oncology
سال: 2011
ISSN: 1057-9249
DOI: 10.1002/pon.1788