Enhancing retrieval of best evidence for health care from bibliographic databases: calibration of the hand search of the literature.

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Published in Stud Health Technol Inform on January 01, 2001

Authors

N L Wilczynski1, K A McKibbon, R B Haynes

Author Affiliations

1: Health Information Research Unit, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, L8N 3Z5, Canada. wilczyn@mcmaster.ca

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