157: Assessing the Methodological Quality of Decision Support System (dss) Systematic Reviews by Amstar Checklist
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Fatemeh Sadeghi-Ghyassi, Zahra Fathifar, Hossein Saeedi Hasankandi. PhD Student, Health Information Management, Faculty of Management and Medical Informatics Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran; Research Center for Evidence Based Medicine, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran; Faculty of Health, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran; Central Library, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran.
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