Electronic trial banks: A complementary method for reporting randomized trials

Medical Decision Making

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 440-450

  Sim, Ida ^a,b   Owens, Douglas K ^a,b   Lavori, Philip W ^a,b   Rennels, Glenn D ^b  

^a VA PALO ALTO HEALTH CARE SYSTEM   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Clinical trials; Electronic publishing; Knowledge bases; Meta analysis

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA BASE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INFORMATION SYSTEM; PUBLICATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

DATABASES, FACTUAL; HUMANS; INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY; META-ANALYSIS; PUBLISHING; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS;

EID: 0033658334     PISSN: 0272989X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0272989X0002000408     Document Type: Article

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