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Metadata
Title
“Garbage in, garbage out”—the importance of detailing methodological reasoning in orthopaedic meta-analysis
Authors
Toby O. Smith
Caroline B. Hing
Publication date
01-02-2011
Publisher
Springer-Verlag
Published in
International Orthopaedics / Issue 2/2011
Print ISSN: 0341-2695
Electronic ISSN: 1432-5195
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00264-010-1171-9

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