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Waffenschmidt S, Hermanns T, Gerber-Grote A, Mostardt S. No suitable precise or optimized epidemiologic search filters were available for bibliographic databases. J Clin Epidemiol. 2016 Aug 26. pii: S0895-4356(16)30366-3.
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Royle P, Bain L, Waugh N. Systematic reviews of epidemiology in diabetes: finding the evidence. BMC Med Res Methodol. 2005;5(1):2.
University of Pittsburgh Health Sciences Library. Filters for case control, cross sectional, and cohort studies, incidence and prevalence studies
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