GRADE guidelines: 4. Rating the quality of evidence--study limitations (risk of bias).

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  2011

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  Journal of Clinical Epidemiology

• Publication date

  2011-04-01

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  Medicine

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  DOI 10.1016/j.jclinepi.2010.07.017PMID 21247734
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