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spellingShingle Kang, Deying, Wu, Yuxia, Hu, Dan, Hong, Qi, Wang, Jialiang, Zhang, Xin, Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine, Reliability and External Validity of AMSTAR in Assessing Quality of TCM Systematic Reviews, Complementary and alternative medicine
title Reliability and External Validity of AMSTAR in Assessing Quality of TCM Systematic Reviews
title_full Reliability and External Validity of AMSTAR in Assessing Quality of TCM Systematic Reviews
title_fullStr Reliability and External Validity of AMSTAR in Assessing Quality of TCM Systematic Reviews
title_full_unstemmed Reliability and External Validity of AMSTAR in Assessing Quality of TCM Systematic Reviews
title_short Reliability and External Validity of AMSTAR in Assessing Quality of TCM Systematic Reviews
title_sort reliability and external validity of amstar in assessing quality of tcm systematic reviews
title_unstemmed Reliability and External Validity of AMSTAR in Assessing Quality of TCM Systematic Reviews
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