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Systematic reviews need systematic searchers

Jessie McGowan1, Margaret Sampson

  • 1Ottawa Health Research Institute/Institute of Population Health University of Ottawa Ottawa K1N 6N5 Canada. jmcgowan@uottawa.ca

Journal of the Medical Library Association : JMLA
|February 3, 2005
PubMed
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