Publication Bias: The Triumph of Hope Over Experience

JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association

Volumn 267, Issue 3, 1992, Pages 411-412

  Rennie, Drummond ^a,b   Flanagin, Annette ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EDITORIAL; HUMAN; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UNITED STATES;

BIOMEDICAL AND BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; CLINICAL APPROACH/SOURCE; EDITORIAL POLICIES;

AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); ETHICS COMMITTEES, RESEARCH; PEER REVIEW; PUBLISHING; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0026542774     PISSN: 00987484     EISSN: 15383598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jama.1992.03480030089045     Document Type: Article

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