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4.S1 Technical Supplement to Chapter 4: Searching for and selecting studies

Carol Lefebvre, Julie Glanville, Simon Briscoe, Robin Featherstone, Anne Littlewood, Maria-Inti Metzendorf, Anna Noel-Storr, Robin Paynter, Tamara Rader, James Thomas and L. Susan Wieland on behalf of the Cochrane Information Retrieval Methods Group

This Technical Supplement should be cited as: Lefebvre C, Glanville J, Briscoe S, Featherstone R, Littlewood A, Metzendorf M-I, Noel-Storr A, Paynter R, Rader T, Thomas J, Wieland LS. Technical Supplement to Chapter 4: Searching for and selecting studies [last updated September 2024]. In: Higgins JP, Thomas J, Chandler J, Cumpston M, Li T, Page MJ, et al, editor(s). Cochrane Handbook for Systematic Reviews of Interventions version 6.5. Cochrane, 2024. Available from cochrane.org/handbook.

This technical supplement is available as a PDF document

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