Journal of Clinical Epidemiology
Volume 63, Issue 5 , Pages 476-478 , May 2010

AHRQ Series Commentary 2: Informative, timely, and valuable: an outsider view of the Comparative Effectiveness Review articles

  • David Tovey

      Affiliations

    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Cochrane Editorial Unit, The Cochrane Collaboration, 29 Queen Elizabeth Street, London, SE1 2LP, United Kingdom. Tel.: +44 2071837503; fax: +44 2071839163.

,Accepted 11 January 2010.

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 Conflict of interest: The author is an employee of The Cochrane Collaboration.

PII: S0895-4356(10)00025-9

doi: 10.1016/j.jclinepi.2010.01.001

Journal of Clinical Epidemiology
Volume 63, Issue 5 , Pages 476-478 , May 2010

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