Seventy-five trials and eleven systematic reviews a day: how will we ever keep up?

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Published in PLoS Med on September 21, 2010

Authors

Hilda Bastian1, Paul Glasziou, Iain Chalmers

Author Affiliations

1: German Institute for Quality and Efficiency in Health Care (IQWiG), Cologne, Germany. Hilda.bastian@iqwig.de

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