EVIDENCE‐BASED UROLOGY IN PRACTICE: PUBLICATION BIAS

B J U I N T E R N A T I O N A L © 2 0 11 B J U I N T E R N A T I O N A L | 1 0 7 , 3 3 7 – 3 3 8 | doi:10.1111/j.1464-410X.2010.10068.x 3 3 7 search yielded two abstracts, which were only available in Korean as full-text papers [8,9]. As we described in our article, we were unable to include these papers in our review despite several efforts to contact the authors to obtain methodological description.

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