PRISMA-Equity 2012 Extension: Reporting Guidelines for Systematic Reviews with a Focus on Health Equity

Vivian Welch and colleagues present consensus-based guidelines for reporting equity-focused systematic reviews, the PRISMA-Equity extension.

• Publication year

  2012

• Venue

  PLoS Medicine

• Publication date

  2012-10-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Political Science

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1371/journal.pmed.1001333PMID 23222917PMCID 3484052
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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