Unpublished research from a medical specialty meeting. Why investigators fail to publish

JAMA

Volumn 280, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 257-259

  Weber, Ellen J ^a   Callaham, Michael L ^a   Wears, Robert L ^b   Barton, Christopher ^c   Young, Gary ^a,d,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d HIGHLAND HOSPITAL   (United States)

^e Sacred Heart Medical Center Eugene   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLICATION; QUALITY CONTROL; SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE;

EID: 0032527532     PISSN: 00987484     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jama.280.3.257     Document Type: Article

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