Newcastle-Ottawa Scale: comparing reviewers’ to authors’ assessments

Lo et al. (Tue,) studied this question.

www.synapsesocial.com/papers/69d56f8a75589c71d767d99d — DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2288-14-45

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