Systematic Reviews: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

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• Publication year

  2009

• Venue

  American Journal of Gastroenterology

• Publication date

  2009-05-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine

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  DOI 10.1038/ajg.2009.118PMID 19417748
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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