Developing a database of published reports of randomised clinical trials in pain research

Pain

Volumn 66, Issue 2-3, 1996, Pages 239-246

  Jadad, Alejandro R ^c,d   Carroll, Dawn ^a   Moore, Andrew ^a   McQuay, Henry ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b OXFORD UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^c BALLIOL COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

^d MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Analgesics; Informatics; MEDLINE; Meta analysis; Pain; Randomized controlled trials

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIC AGENT;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; DATA BASE; HUMAN; MEDICAL INFORMATION; META ANALYSIS; PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL;

EID: 0030221130     PISSN: 03043959     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0304-3959(96)03033-3     Document Type: Article

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