title: Risk of a biased assessment of the evidence when limiting literature searches to the English language: macrolides in asthma as an illustrative example.
authors.affiliation: Department of Respiratory Medicine, Ghent University Hospital, B-9000 Ghent, Belgium; Departments of Epidemiology and Respiratory Medicine, Erasmus MC Rotterdam, CA 3000 Rotterdam, The Netherlands. Electronic address: guy.brusselle@ugent.be.
authors.forename: Guy G
authors.initials: GG
authors.lastname: Brusselle
authors.affiliation: Department of Pathophysiology and Transplantation, Università degli Studi di Milano, IRCCS Fondazione Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico Cà Granda Milan, Italy.
authors.forename: Francesco
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Blasi
mesh_terms: D001249:Asthma / Q000188:drug therapy*; D015982:Bias; D005006:Ethnicity; D006801:Humans; D007802:Language; D018942:Macrolides / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D015201:Meta-Analysis as Topic; D010506:Periodicals as Topic
chemical_list: D018942:Macrolides
keywords: Asthma; Chinese; English; Macrolides; Meta-analysis; Systematic review