Prevalence study of the randomized controlled trials in the Journal of Intellectual Disability Research: 1957-1994

Journal of Intellectual Disability Research

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 232-237

  Duggan, L M ^a   Morris, M ^a   Adams, C E ^b  

^a Oxfordshire Lrng Disability NHS T   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Electronic databases; Indexing; Journal of Intellectual Disability Research; Randomized controlled trials

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; DATA BASE; INTELLECTUAL IMPAIRMENT; LEARNING DISORDER; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL;

EID: 0030769023     PISSN: 09642633     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2788.1997.tb00702.x     Document Type: Article

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