Mulrow C (1987)

The medical review article: state of the science. Annals of Internal Medicine 106:485-488.
In an analysis of the quality of review articles in major general medical journals, the American physician Cynthia Mulrow, showed that most review articles were based on analyses that had ignored basic scientific principles.

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Cynthia D. Mulrow

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