Assessing the quality of randomized controlled trials: An annotated bibliography of scales and checklists

Controlled Clinical Trials

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 1995, Pages 62-73

  Moher, David ^a,b   Jadad, Alejandro R ^c   Nichol, Graham ^d   Penman, Marie ^a   Tugwell, Peter ^a,b   Walsh, Sharon ^a,b  

^a Clinical Epidemiology Unit Loeb Medical Research Institute ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^d BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

assessment; checklists; Clinimetrics; quality; scales

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; QUALITY CONTROL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REVIEW;

BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); GUIDELINES; HUMANS; QUALITY ASSURANCE, HEALTH CARE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT;

EID: 0028929172     PISSN: 01972456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0197-2456(94)00031-W     Document Type: Article

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