Systemic reviews are inevitably out of date
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A Comparison of Statistical Methods for Identifying Out-of-Date Systematic Reviews
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عنوان ژورنال: Australian Journal of Physiotherapy
سال: 2005
ISSN: 0004-9514
DOI: 10.1016/s0004-9514(05)70032-5