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. 2003 Nov 8;327(7423):1083-4.
doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7423.1083.

Number of published systematic reviews and global burden of disease: database analysis

George H Swingler  1 , Jimmy Volmink, John P A Ioannidis
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Number of published systematic reviews and global burden of disease: database analysis

George H Swingler et al. BMJ. .
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Number of systematic reviews in the Cochrane database of systematic reviews (CDSR) and in the database of abstracts of reviews of effect (DARE) according to the burden of disease for each major disease group; see bmj.com for disease categories
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